This plugins provides:

• Route class for generating and matching urls with language prefix.
• Class for retrieving translation messages stored in database instead of po/mo files.
• Validation class for auto translating validation message.

• CakePHP 3.0+

composer require admad/cakephp-i18n:1.0.x-dev

Load the plugin in config/bootstrap.php:

// Load the plugin.
Plugin::load('ADmad/I18n');

The I18nRoutes helps generating routes of style /:lang/:controller/:action.

For e.g. you can add routes to your routes.php similar to the ones shown below:

Router::scope('/', function ($routes) {
    $routes->connect(
        '/:controller',
        ['action' => 'index'],
        ['routeClass' => 'ADmad/I18n.I18nRoute']
    );
    $routes->connect(
        '/:controller/:action/*',
        [],
        ['routeClass' => 'ADmad/I18n.I18nRoute']
    );
});

Fragment /:lang will be auto prefixed to the routes which allows matching URLs like /en/posts, /en/posts/add etc. The :lang element is persisted so that when generating URLs if you don't provide the lang key in URL array it will be automatically added based on current URL.

When connecting the routes you can use lang key in options to provide regular expression to match only languages which your app supports. Or your can set config value I18n.languages which the route class will use to auto generate regex for lang element matching:

Configure::write('I18n.languages', ['en', 'fr', 'de']);

Note: I18nRoute extends core's DashedRoute so the URL fragments will be inflected accordingly.

Create database table using sql file provided in config folder.

Add code similar to what's shown below in your app's config/bootstrap.php:

// Configure I18n to use DbMessagesLoader for default domain. You need to do
// this for each domain separately.
I18n::config('default', function ($domain, $locale) {
    return new \ADmad\I18n\I18n\DbMessagesLoader(
        $domain,
        $locale
    );
});

Populate the i18n_messages table with required message strings and translations.