I am trying to create PHP pages with SEO-friendly slugs like so:
www.example.com/italian-foods
www.example.com/de/italienisches-essen
www.example.com/it/cibo-italiano
Links are created with php-i18n and slugify like so:
<?php
$link = $i18n->getAppliedLang() .'/'. $slugify->slugify(L::menu_italianfoods);
?>
<a class="nav-link" href="<?php echo $link; ?>">
<?php echo L::menu_italianfoods; ?>
</a>
This allows dynamic creation of the slug in each language based simply on the translated string for menu_italianfoods.
If the links were not slugified, the links would lead to index.php?page=italian-foods where index.php includes the actual file based on $_GET['page'], in this case views/italian-foods.php.
What is the recommended best-practice for "de-slugifying" the URL in this example? I can imagine a script which switches all possible slugs and points to the correct file to include, but I am not sure if this is overly complicated. Is there a better approach?
