create language code in url for specific language version of the site?

Question

my site is having three language switcher English, German and Russian using cookies when the visitor clicks the flags. The URL is same for every language.

Now i want to point url

http://www.website.com/ru

to the Russian version of the site.

Will this be done using .htaccess or with some other method.

How to achieve this.

Answer 1

You can try this in your .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^([a-z]{2})/(.*)$ /$2?lang=$1 [QSA]

Now in your PHP code you can get the language with:

$lang = isset($_GET['lang']) ? $_GET['lang'] : 'en'; // put your default language last.