How can I find the current language?

[perffy]

Hi guys,

how get I find the current language of the page?

I have tried with this first Lang::getLocale() and then app()->getLocale() but both give me the default language instead of the selected. How can I solve this?

[Ivan Vermeyen]

Hello,

If you apply the SetLocale middleware to a route, it will update the app locale, so you can retrieve it with app()->getLocale(). That code needs to run after the middleware has run. I think ServiceProviders etc run before the middleware, so there, the locale will not be updated yet.

[perffy]

the problem was that I was calling getLocale() in the __construct() in it seems there is still the default language. Do you know why is that?

[Ivan Vermeyen]

Do you mean n the controller construct?
The constructor is called before the middleware I believe, because you can also define middleware there.
Until the SetLocale middleware has run, the default app locale remains unchanged.

[perffy]

yes, that makes sense.

Thank you :)