Laravel change locale not working

Question

I am using a dropdown lists for the languages, consisting of english and dutch.

Answer 1

setLocale will only change the language for the rest of the request from that point on.

So to persist it, you could look into setting the selected language in a session (https://laravel.com/docs/session). Then you can create a middeware (https://laravel.com/docs/middleware) where you can check if a language is set in the session and then apply it for the request :)