Making Flarum support MultiLanguages

ProgWeb

I just discovered about Flarum and honestly, even if you suggest to not use it on a production environnement but unfortunatelly I Will 😉 (Why ? It doesn't matter if I get hacked, since it will be a nice point aswell since I will detect a new bug in Flarum that I will fix ... and repeat this process again and again until it will be more secure ).

Anyway let's talk about my question:

I want to create subdomain for each language, for example:
en.example.com
fr.example.com
etc ...

But this separated forums must have the same user table, in other words ... if one of the users register for an account from ENGLISH forum ... he will be able to login too into the French forum.

And my approach is simple:

For each forum, I will add prefix to the tables (english_table)

Except users table.

So here come the problem, the code is somehow problematic for me ... I am new and do not know the structure used for flarum nether the framework ... if it was a pure PHP I can make the modifications easily but here I am lost.

Please, what is the function reponsible to add the prefix for users table ? Or, what is the script class that interact with users table ?

Your help is welcomed, thanks.

ProgWeb

Any answer for this case please ?

Thanks in advance for your efforts.

jordanjay29

There have definitely been different discussions and extensions about how to handle multi-language content before.

What you're talking about seems to be related to multi-tenancy, which isn't something Flarum supports at the moment. There haven't been many technically appropriate attempts in the past (mostly naive hacking that don't work with Flarum), so I have little resources to point you to, but I can move this to the Dev tag so you can get developer eyes on it instead.

luceos

If you're only after changing the connection for the User model you should consider replacing the ConnectionResolver on the User class. There's a static setter for that, the replacement Resolver should then return the different connection per default. This is what I'm doing in my Tenancy (for Laravel) package as well for Eloquent models of third parties (which you cannot modify directly), see: https://github.com/tenancy/multi-tenant/blob/31efed12bacb1572fb6c8e671973364783ccbba4/src/Providers/Tenants/ConnectionProvider.php#L69-L87