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OK. You are using a .htaccess rule.
If you don´t use an .htacces rule you will obtain a url like this:
http://example.com/index.phpen
and you should modify the library to place a ‘/’ between index.php and language uri.
Can I suggest that this little advice could be added to wiki?
But now I get this error message:

An Error Was Encountered

Unable to load the requested language file: language/spanish_lang.php

or english,etc..

Thanks for that tip, I’ll add it to the next update.

Also language files need to be located in their own directory:
ie: language/spanish/spanish_lang.php

Version 0.10 is available on the wiki.

Added checks and code adjustments for $config[‘index_page’] being set.

It is strange, I am using the URI Language Identifier on two websites, both of which also use Validation with no problems.

However you might need to make sure the form action is using site_url() and not base_url()

OK, I probably have missed something.

I’ve tried with site_url(), but I see no difference in the result and in the HTML code generated. So I’ve tried to add manually in the post URL the beginning /en between the site_url and my controller name and this solves the problem.

So I think that the site_url() helper function does not add the language to the URL string like it should. I’ve used a fresh CI 1.6.1 install and I think I’ve followed the wiki link.

Regards,

Tchule

Some more informations about my problem, In fact the URL I call to view my form is something like “localhost/myapp/mycontroller”.

When the form page is shown on the browser, it as been redirected to “localhost/myapp/fr/mycontroller”, despite the fact that the “fr” abbreviation should be ignored.

$config['lang_ignore'] = "fr";

The generated form validation URL is “localhost/myapp/mycontroller/validate”. When called like this, the content of the post is empty.

If I manually change the URL to “localhost/myapp/fr/mycontroller/validate”, the validation works fine.

Tchule.

@tchule, The language abbreviation is added to the $config[‘index_page’] value and site_url() uses this value, whereas base_url() does not. You may not see a difference in the rendered url if index_page value is blank, but it is important.

Please post your config settings for base_url, index_page and all those for language.

Version 0.11 is available on the wiki.
Corrected a bug with redirect

@tchule, The language abbreviation is added to the $config[‘index_page’] value and site_url() uses this value, whereas base_url() does not. You may not see a difference in the rendered url if index_page value is blank, but it is important.

Please post your config settings for base_url, index_page and all those for language.

Hello wiredesignz, and thanks for your reply.

Here are my settings:

$config['base_url']    = "http://localhost/myapp/";

$config['index_page'] = "";

$config['language'] = "french";

//default language abbreviation
$config['language_abbr'] = "fr";

//set available language abbreviations
$config['lang_uri_abbr'] = array("fr" => "french", "en" => "english");

//ignore this language abbreviation
$config['lang_ignore'] = "fr";

Ok. I have never tested what happens if you try to ignore the default language.

Looking at the code it seems like it will always cause a redirect after rebuilding the url to include the default abbreviation.

It seems to me that it should probably load the default language and ignore the url. I’ll do some tests. Thanks.

OK, thanks.

In the meantime, I’ve desactivated the ignore parameter and it works fine.

A little proposal (it’s probably not the best thread to discuss it), i’ve changed the line method of the Language library in order to identify on the web site what strings have to be translated by adding some “[]”.

/**
     * Fetch a single line of text from the language array
     *
     * @access    public
     * @param    string    the language line
     * @return    string
     */
    function line($line = '')
    {
        return ($line == '' OR ! isset($this->language[$line])) ? '['.$line.']' : $this->language[$line];
    }

Tchule.

Version 0.12 is available on the wiki.

Fixed issues with using default language ignore. Thanks tchule 😉

Nice, works fine.

Thanks for your work Wiredesignz, it’s a cool extension.

Tchule.

No worries, you’re welcome. 😊

I have been working with your (fantastic) extension, but I needed to display links to the content in alternative languages, so I wrote this little helper. I have been testing it and it works without problems, but I am new in codeigniter so I am sure that it can be improved.
You can see it in action in Agro-forestal
Here it goes
add to the config a few lines like this:

//language descriptions
$config['lang_desc']=array("es"=>"Versión en español",
                           "en" => "English version",
                           "gl" => "Versión en galego");

Place this file in your application
MY_url_helper.php

<?php  if (!defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');
/**
* Alternative languages helper
*
* Returns a string with links to the content in alternative languages
*
* version 0.2
* @author Luis <[email protected]>
*/

function alt_site_url($uri = '')
{
    $CI =& get_instance();
    $actual_lang=$CI->uri->segment(1);
    $languages=$CI->config->item('lang_desc');
    $ignore_lang=$CI->config->item('lang_ignore');
    if (empty($actual_lang))
    {
        $uri=$ignore_lang.$CI->uri->uri_string();
        $actual_lang=$ignore_lang;
    }
    else
    {
        if (!array_key_exists($actual_lang,$languages))
        {
            $uri=$ignore_lang.$CI->uri->uri_string();
            $actual_lang=$ignore_lang;
        }
        else
        {
            $uri=$CI->uri->uri_string();
            $uri=substr_replace($uri,'',0,1);
        }
    }
    $alt_url='';
    foreach ($languages as $lang=>$lang_desc)
    {

         if ($actual_lang!=$lang)
         {
            $alt_url.='<a href="http://example.com/mycontroller/myfunction/%22&gtconfig-&gtslash_item%27base_url%27">http://example.com/es/mycontroller/myfunction/</a>.  This is what  you will obtain:
<pre><code><div id="alternative_languages">
<a ]English version[/url]

<a href="http://example.com/gl/mycontroller/myfunction/">Versión en galego</a>

</div>

Errors? sugestions?.

Good work. Add your helper to the URI Language Identifier wiki article. 😉