Simple Translator (formerly known as Another Language Switcher)

Posted: 09 May 2007 03:47 PM

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Mark,

I don’t think your set_admin_language() function works, at least not for me.
You are probably running into the same problem I ran into when I was trying to build a solid language switcher.

See this thread for details: http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewthread/31742/.

Does it work for others?
Maybe only in PHP 5?

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Posted: 09 May 2007 04:07 PM

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Wondering out load: It would seem to me that this option of being able to switch languages on the fly is something that many folks would be glad to have and it would indeed help EE in attracting new customers because of this capability. Therefore, is it something that perhaps could be rolled into a forthcoming version of EE? Mark and others have done a super job and this could be the foundation on which EE can roll it into their production cycle? I am specifically referring to a Language Switch for page viewing and not the back-end admin areas, although that could be also incorporated. Just a thought….

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Posted: 09 May 2007 04:33 PM

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@Cocoaholic,
You are correct, the function will only work in PHP5. I’ll try to check out a workaround for PHP4, but I’m not sure what could be done without hacking the core files. I’ve also submitted a feature request through your linked thread to hopefully get a few more hooks into the template system.

@giovanni,
I concur. this would be a nice feature.

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Posted: 11 May 2007 05:12 AM

[ Ignore ] [ # 40 ]

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Excellent extension Mark!

One little question: Is it possible to check which language is active? I have two languages Dutch and English and I only want to display the option which is currently not active. So if the language is Dutch, i want to have a link that says ‘English’ and vice versa.

I tried it with a {if} statement but i cant figure out which variable to use.

Anyone a suggestion?

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Posted: 11 May 2007 05:21 AM

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The way it’s working now an {if /} statement won’t work. It’s kind of finicky that way because the XHTML is calculated before the template even begins parsing. I did it that way to simplify things, otherwise I’d need to bundle a plugin with the extension. That being said, there should be enough CSS hooks in there to style it so that the active language is hidden.

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Posted: 11 May 2007 05:52 AM

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Robert,

For now you could use this PHP snippet, or something similar.

<?php
global $SESS;
if ( isset($SESS->cache['mh_field_list']['title_nl']) ) {
    echo '<a href="http://domain.com/index.php/lang/default/">English</a>';
} else {
    echo '<a href="http://domain.com/index.php/lang/_nl/">Nederlands</a>';
}
?> 

Make sure you change the domain name name and correct the path.
If your default language is Dutch you also need to change the code to this:

<?php
global $SESS;
if ( isset($SESS->cache['mh_field_list']['title_en']) ) {
    echo '<a href="http://domain.com/index.php/lang/_en/">English</a>';
} else {
    echo '<a href="http://domain.com/index.php/lang/default/">Nederlands</a>';
}
?> 

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Posted: 11 May 2007 05:56 AM

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I dare say you could probably even make your links relative, so you don’t have to alter them on every page

<?php
global $IN;
if ( isset($IN->global_vars['simple_language']) && $IN->global_vars['simple_language'] == '_en' ) {
    echo '<a href="lang/_en/">English</a>';
} else {
    echo '<a href="lang/default/">Nederlands</a>';
}
?> 

I also switched the condition around to use one of the global variables the extension sets.

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Posted: 11 May 2007 06:06 AM

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Even better!

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Posted: 11 May 2007 06:24 AM

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Thanks guys… this helped me a lot!

At first it didn’t work, but the right code (for me) must be:

<?php
global $IN;
if ( isset($IN->global_vars['simple_language']) && $IN->global_vars['simple_language'] == 'English' ) {
    echo '<a href="{path="site_index"}/lang/default/">Nederlands</a>';
} else {
    echo '<a href="{path="site_index"}/lang/_en/">English</a>';
}
?> 

I even can use {if simple_language == “Nederlands”} code {/if}

So i’m happy!

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Posted: 11 May 2007 06:31 AM

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Well isn’t that sexy. I’d use the EE conditional to keep it all in the family. Anyway, I’m glad you got it figured out.

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Posted: 11 May 2007 06:32 AM

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Nice, I’d drop the PHP code and use this instead:

{if simple_language == "English"}
<a href="{path="site_index"}/lang/default/">Nederlands</a>
{if:else}
<a href="{path="site_index"}/lang/_en/">English</a>
{/if} 

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Posted: 11 May 2007 07:00 AM

[ Ignore ] [ # 48 ]

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Translation works like a clock!

Only the category names are still an issue.

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Posted: 11 May 2007 08:42 AM

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Indeed. Glad the rest of it’s working for you though.

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Posted: 11 May 2007 10:05 AM

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Alright, I have it switching categories now. It’s a hack, but I’m pretty pleased with it. You can read about the implementation at the top of the thread, but as a teaser you only need to perform the following:

{exp:weblog:categories weblog="blog" category_group="{exp:translator:category_group="4"}"}&hellip;{/exp:weblog:categories} 

If category group 4 were named ‘blog’ and there was another category group named ‘blog_ja’ it would switch blog to the suffixed version assuming a user is browsing in japanese.

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Posted: 11 May 2007 10:08 AM

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w00t! w00t!!

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Posted: 11 May 2007 11:15 AM

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Mark, this is working for me! Thanx for the fast solution

Super! Give this man a medal, please!

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Posted: 12 May 2007 12:57 AM

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Hi Mark,

I get a syntax error…

Error

The following tag has a syntax error:

{exp:language:switcher}

Please correct the syntax in your template.

My template is just this…

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <title>Testing</title>        
</head>
<body>

{exp:language:switcher}

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="home_page"}
<h2>{title}</h2>
{body}
{/exp:weblog:entries}

</body>
</html> 

I don’t understand what is wrong? Sorry I’m a bit new to EE.

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