Get Locale in Laravel problem.

@tykus I am setting the locale with the routes I wrote above

@Kris01 I understand how your user changes locale; but what does that mean within the application? You make a request; something like https://your-domain.dev/it/thing/123, and what then, you read the locale from the URL segment?

@tykus no, I use 'app()->getLocale()' and it returns the current language. Actually I don't use "app()->setLocale()" anywhere to set the locale, so apparently route(Route::currentRouteName(), 'de') is enough to change the locale, maybe? Anyway, no, I don't read it from the url, I use 'app()->getLocale()'

@tykus As you said, the problem is that the serviceProvider runs early. I just checked by putting some dd's and that in the serviceprovider is the one that comes first

@Kris01

so apparently route(Route::currentRouteName(), 'de') is enough to change the locale, maybe?

I wouldn't think so. Do you have a locale wildcard segment on your route definitions?

@tykus This is how my routes look like :

Route::redirect('/' , '/FR');

Route::group(['prefix' => '{language}', 'middleware' => [adminCheck::class]], function(){
	//routes
})

@Kris01 okay, so there is the language prefix on every route - next question is where is this read? Do you have a route Middleware class that reads the language from the URL and sets the app locale?

@tykus Oh ok, so I was wrong, I totally forgot that I have a middleware 'setLanguage'.

In the 'setLanguage' middleware:

public function handle(Request $request, Closure $next)
    {
       
        \App::setLocale($request->language);
      
        return $next($request);
    }

in the kernel:

 protected $middlewareGroups = [
        'web' => [
   			......
         \App\Http\Middleware\SetLanguage::class,
        ],

@Kris01 okay that all makes sense now. So, how are you using the locale inside the ServiceProvider?

Also, you probably want to ensure that the language segment is one of the supported languages!

@tykus This is inside the content service provider 'boot' method, but the app()->getLocale() dosen't return the current locale, instead it returns the default one. I also tried 'app()->currentLocale()' but it is the same.

$contents = CategoryDifferentLang::whereHas('language',function ($q){
            $q->where('slug', app()->getLocale());
        })->with('category_relation')->get();
 view()->composer('front.layout', function($view) use ($contents) {
            $view->with(['contents' => $contents]);
        });

@Kris01 how about putting the app()->getLocale() call inside the Closure instead - then it will be evaluated whenever the view is about to render rather than whenever the framework is booting:

view()->composer('front.layout', function($view) {
    $view->with([
        'contents' => CategoryDifferentLang::whereHas('language',function ($q){
            $q->where('slug', app()->getLocale());
        })->with('category_relation')->get()
    ]);
});

@tykus Hey man, thank you so much for your help and patience. Is it anything more valuable than the 'best answer' that I could give you? some rating, points... I don't know I am new here, and if there is something please tell me I would be happy to do so :D

@Kris01 happy to help 👍