Symfony URL Redirection
Some time is very needy to redirect URL base on different conditional behaviour. This example presents how to check locale and redirect to locale
namespace Chorke\Bundle\WebappBundle\Controller;
use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Controller\Controller;
use Sensio\Bundle\FrameworkExtraBundle\Configuration\Route;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;
/**
* @Route("/home")
*/
class HomeController extends Controller
{
private $lingos;
private $locals;
public function __construct()
{
$lingos = "ar|bn|en|fr|tk|zz";
$this->lingos = str_replace("|zz", "", $lingos);
$this->locals = explode('|', $this->lingos);
}
/**
* @Route("/{_locale}",
* name="home_index", defaults={"_locale"="zz"},
* requirements={"_locale"="ar|bn|en|fr|tk|zz"})
*/
public function indexAction($_locale)
{
if(!$this->hasLocal($_locale))
{
return $this->redirectToLocal('home_index');
}
$parameters = array('locale' => $_locale);
return $this->render('WebappBundle:Home:index.html.twig', $parameters);
}
private function hasLocal($locale)
{
return in_array($locale, $this->locals);
}
private function redirectToLocal($route)
{
$parameters = array('_locale' => 'en');
return $this->redirectToRoute($route, $parameters, Response::HTTP_TEMPORARY_REDIRECT);
}
}