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Added chapter about the locale based on the user entity #4875

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peterrehm committed Jan 21, 2015
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41 changes: 27 additions & 14 deletions 41 cookbook/session/locale_sticky_session.rst
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$locale = $request->getLocale();
}

Setting the Locale based on the User Entity
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Setting the Locale Based on the User's Preferences
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You might want to improve this technique even further and define the locale based on
the user entity of the logged in user. However since the ``LocaleListener`` is called
the user entity of the logged in user. However, since the ``LocaleListener`` is called
before the ``FirewallListener``, which is responsible for handling authentication and
is setting the user token into the ``TokenStorage``, you have no access to the user
which is logged in.

First lets pretend you have defined a property locale in your user entity which you
Let's pretend you have defined a property "locale" in your user entity which you
want to be used as the locale for the given user. In order to achieve the wanted locale
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I find this phrase too long and a bit confusing. Maybe we should reword it or split it:

In order to achieve the wanted locale configuration you can set the locale
which is defined for the user to the session right after the login.

configuration you can set the locale which is defined for the user to the session right
after the login. Fortunately you can hook into the login process and update your session
variable before the redirect to the first page. For this you need an event listener for the
configuration, you can set the locale which is defined for the user to the session right
after the login. Fortunately, you can hook into the login process and update the user's
session before the redirect to the first page. For this you need an event listener for the
``security.interactive_login`` event.
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We could end this sentence with a colon.


.. code-block:: php
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.. code-block:: xml

<!-- app/config/services.xml -->
<service id="kernel.listener.your_listener_name" class="AppBundle\EventListener\UserLocaleListener">
<tag name="kernel.event_listener" event="security.interactive_login" method="onInteractiveLogin" />
</service>
<!-- app/config/config.xml -->
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services.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<container xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services
http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services/services-1.0.xsd">

<services>
<service id="app.user_locale_listener"
class="AppBundle\EventListener\UserLocaleListener">

<tag name="kernel.event_listener"
event="security.interactive_login"
method="onInteractiveLogin" />
</service>
</services>
</container>

.. code-block:: php

// app/config/services.php
$container
->register('kernel.listener.your_listener_name', 'AppBundle\EventListener\UserLocaleListener')
->register('app.user_locale_listener', 'AppBundle\EventListener\UserLocaleListener')
->addTag('kernel.event_listener', array('event' => 'security.interactive_login', 'method' => 'onInteractiveLogin'))
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I would wrap this to avoid horizontal scrollbars.

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.. caution::

With this configuration you are all set for having the locale based on the user's
locale. If however the locale changes during the session it would not be updated
locale. If however the locale changes during the session, it would not be updated
since with the current implementation the user locale will only be stored to the
session on login. In order to update the language immediately after a user has
changed their language you need to update the session variable after an update to
changed their language, you need to update the session after an update to
the user entity.
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