Laravel 9 get current locale form i18Next in controller

Question

I'm trying to get the current user locale in controller Found many references that answers this but for react or vue that didn't work in my case

I tried

Lang::locale();

Config::get('app.locale');

app()->getLocale()

Nothing worked, though when I change language I see in console

i18next: languageChanged de

triggered by:

// Re-init translation service
     i18next.on('languageChanged', function() {
        selector.forEach(function(item) {
              item.innerHTML = i18next.t(item.getAttribute("data-i18n"));
        });
   });

How to get this value in controller?

Answer 1

You can do this in another way without using i18Next

Create a new column in database table and call it user_locale

On language dropdown items href tag add route on each item as your needs:

href="{{ route('users.setUserLocale') }}/en"

Define new route

Route::get('users/{user_locale?}','UsersController@setUserLocale')->name('users.setUserLocale');

Add in controller

use DB;
use Auth;

    public function setUserLocale($user_locale = NULL) {
            $thisUser = Auth::user();
            $dbQry = DB::table('users')->where('id', $thisUser->id)->update(
                [
                    'user_locale' => $user_locale,
                ]
            );
            return back();
        }

This way each time a user changes the language the value will be updated in user_locale column with the current language code

To get the locale, you can simply do

thisUser = Auth::user();
$locale = $thisUser->user_locale;