BrowserLocale

Get the most preferred locales from your visitor's browser.

Every browser has a setting for preferred website locales.

This can be read by PHP, usually with the $_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"] variable.

$_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"] will return a comma separated list of language codes. Each language code MAY have a "relative quality factor" attached ("nl;q=0.8") which determines the order of preference. For example: nl-NL,nl;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.6,en;q=0.4. If no relative quality factor is present, the value is by default 1.0.

BrowserLocale parses this string and lets you access the preferred locales quickly and easily.

Requirements

• PHP >= 7.0

Install

composer require codezero/browser-locale

Instantiate

For vanilla PHP:

$browser = new \CodeZero\BrowserLocale\BrowserLocale($_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"]);

For Laravel:

Laravel >= 5.5 will automatically register the ServiceProvider so you can get BrowserLocale from the IOC container.

$browser = \App::make(\CodeZero\BrowserLocale\BrowserLocale::class);

Get Primary Locale

$locale = $browser->getLocale();

This will return an instance of \CodeZero\BrowserLocale\Locale or null if no locale exists.

if ($locale !== null) {
    $full     = $locale->locale;   // Example: "en-US"
    $language = $locale->language; // Example: "en"
    $country  = $locale->country;  // Example: "US"
    $weight   = $locale->weight;   // Example: 1.0
}

Get All Locales

$locales = $browser->getLocales();

This will return an array of \CodeZero\BrowserLocale\Locale instances, sorted by weight in descending order. So the first array item is the most preferred locale.

If no locales exist, an empty array will be returned.

foreach ($locales as $locale) {
    $full     = $locale->locale;   // Example: "en-US"
    $language = $locale->language; // Example: "en"
    $country  = $locale->country;  // Example: "US"
    $weight   = $locale->weight;   // Example: 1.0  
}

Filter Locale Info

You can get a flattened array with only specific Locale information. These arrays will always be sorted by weight in descending order. There will be no duplicate values! (e.g. en and en-US are both the language en)

LocaleFilter

Returns an array of every locale found in the input string.

$browser = new \CodeZero\BrowserLocale\BrowserLocale('en-US,en;q=0.8,nl-NL;q=0.6');
$filter = new \CodeZero\BrowserLocale\Filters\LocaleFilter;
$locales = $browser->filter($filter);
//=> Result: ['en-US', 'en', 'nl-BE']

CombinedFilter

Returns an array of every locale found in the input string, while making sure the 2-letter language version of the locale is always present.

$browser = new \CodeZero\BrowserLocale\BrowserLocale('en-US,nl;q=0.8');
$filter = new \CodeZero\BrowserLocale\Filters\CombinedFilter;
$locales = $browser->filter($filter);
//=> Result: ['en-US', 'en', 'nl']

LanguageFilter

Returns an array of only the 2-letter language codes found in the input string. Language codes are also extracted from full locales and added to the results array.

$browser = new \CodeZero\BrowserLocale\BrowserLocale('en-US,en;q=0.8,nl-NL;q=0.6');
$filter = new \CodeZero\BrowserLocale\Filters\LanguageFilter;
$languages = $browser->filter($filter);
//=> Result: ['en', 'nl']

CountryFilter

Returns an array of only the 2-letter country codes found in the input string. Locales that only contain a 2-letter language code will be skipped.

$browser = new \CodeZero\BrowserLocale\BrowserLocale('en-US,en;q=0.8,nl-NL;q=0.6,nl;q=0.4');
$filter = new \CodeZero\BrowserLocale\Filters\CountryFilter;
$countries = $browser->filter($filter);
//=> Result: ['US', 'NL']

WeightFilter

Returns an array of all relative quality factors found in the input string. The default of 1.0 is also included.

$browser = new \CodeZero\BrowserLocale\BrowserLocale('en-US,en;q=0.8,nl-NL;q=0.6,nl;q=0.4');
$filter = new \CodeZero\BrowserLocale\Filters\WeightFilter;
$weights = $browser->filter($filter);
//=> Result: [1.0, 0.8, 0.6, 0.4]

You can create your own filters by implementing the \CodeZero\BrowserLocale\Filters\Filter interface.

Testing

composer test

Security

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Changelog

A complete list of all notable changes to this package can be found on the releases page.

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.