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3.x (current)
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3.0

Doctrine PHPCR-ODM Multi-Language Support

PHPCR-ODM can handle translated documents. All translations of the same document are considered the same document. Only one language version can be loaded at the same time.

Note that the CMF routing component does not use translated routes but has a separate route per language.

To use the multi-language features of PHPCR-ODM you need to enable locales in the configuration.

Translation Configuration

To use translated documents, you need to configure the available languages:

1# app/config/config.yml
doctrine_phpcr:
    odm:
        # ...
        locales:
            en: [de, fr]
            de: [en, fr]
            fr: [en, de]
        locale_fallback: hardcoded
        default_locale: fr


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The locales is a list of alternative locales to look up if a document is not translated to the requested locale.

The default locale is used for the standard locale chooser strategy and hence will be the default locale in the document manager. Specifying the default locale is optional. If you do not specify a default locale then the first locale listed is used as the default locale.

This bundle provides a request listener that gets activated when any locales are configured. This listener updates PHPCR-ODM to use the locale Symfony determined for this request, if that locale is in the list of keys defined under locales.

Fallback strategies

There are several strategies to adjust the fallback order for the selected locale based on the accepted languages of the request (determined by Symfony from the Accept-Language HTML header). All of them will never add any locales that where not configured in the locales to avoid a request injecting unexpected things into your repository:

  • hardcoded: This strategy does not update the fallback order from the request;
  • replace: takes the accepted locales from the request and updates the fallback order with them, removing any locales not found in the request;
  • merge: does the same as replace but then adds locales not found in the request but on the locales configuration back to the end of the fallback list. This reorders the locales without losing any of them. This is the default strategy.

Translated documents

To make a document translated, you need to define the translator attribute on the document mapping, and you need to map the locale field. Then you can use the translated attribute on all fields that should be different depending on the locale.

1// src/App/Documents/Article.php
namespace App\Documents\Article;

use Doctrine\ODM\PHPCR\Mapping\Attributes as PHPCR;

#[PHPCR\Document(translator: 'attribute')]
class Article
{
    /**
     * The language this document currently is in
     */
    #[PHPCR\Locale]
    private $locale;

    /**
     * Untranslated property
     */
    #[PHPCR\Date]
    private $publishDate;

    /**
     * Translated property
     */
    #[PHPCR\Field(type: 'string', translated: true)]
    private $topic;

    /**
     * Language specific image
     */
    #[PHPCR\Binary(translated: true)]
    private $image;
}


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Unless you explicitly interact with the multi-language features of PHPCR-ODM, documents are loaded in the request locale and saved in the locale they where loaded. (This could be a different locale, if the PHPCR-ODM did not find the requested locale and had to fall back to an alternative locale.)

For more information on multilingual documents, see the PHPCR-ODM documentation on multi-language.