I am getting some strange problem... as title said...
I am making post request to change lang value by setting lang forever cookie.
After that I am checking if cookie exist and if it does to app()->setLocale(\Cookie::get('lang')) and then use {{ app()->getLocale() }} which returns stored lang value as en or fr.
But still page is loading config/app.php => 'locale'=>'en'...
Can I at least change config('app.locale') value to \Cookie::get('lang') or do you know what can be a problem here?
Thanks
UPDATE:
I found the answer, I need to add to every file inside views folder - new locale value to be able to retrieve right lang content.. I don't know why because I never had problem before but if somebody else have problem this may be solution.
Probably you change the locale not in the right place. You should use app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php to do that.
Innside boot method you could add something like this:
$this->app->setLocale(\Cookie::get('lang', 'en')
And then you will have language set all the time - when cookie is set to the value from cookie, otherwise to en
Then in your view you don't need to do anything. You can just use:
{{ trans('some.translated') }}
and it will be translated into valid language when you set translation in translation files.
The app()->setLocale('fr') will change the locale for the duration of the request to 'fr'. So if after setting it, you call app()->getLocale(), it will return 'fr'.
If your application reads locale from config('app.locale') in some places, you can change the value on the go like this:
config(['app.locale' => 'fr'])
Then the config('app.locale') will return 'fr' for the duration of the request