@KK

What if I want to display different names for <li> elements in #lang_selector?

I have that code in lang_switcher.html

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<cms:php>
      global $accepted_langs, $selected_lang;
      foreach( $accepted_langs as $lang ){
         $selected_class = ( $lang==$selected_lang ) ? ' selected' : '';
         echo'<li class="'.$lang.$selected_class.'"><a href="<cms:show k_admin_link />switch.php?lang='.$lang.'&redirect='.urlencode($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]).'"><span>'.strtoupper($lang).'</span></a></li>';
      }
      </cms:php>

but it shows me en/de/pl like I typed in config.
But I want full name like English/Polish.

In other places im using <cms:if but in this foreach I don't have idea how to achive that.

How about this?

<cms:php>
global $accepted_langs, $selected_lang;
foreach( $accepted_langs as $lang ){
if ($lang == 'en'){$language = 'English'};
if ($lang == 'de'){$language = 'German'};
if ($lang == 'pl'){$language = 'Polish'};

$selected_class = ( $lang==$selected_lang ) ? ' selected' : '';
echo'<li class="'.$lang.$selected_class.'"><a href="<cms:show k_admin_link />switch.php?lang='.$lang.'&redirect='.urlencode($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]).'"><span>'.strtoupper($language).'</span></a></li>';
}
</cms:php>

I've got syntax error:

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Parse error :  syntax error, unexpected '}' in D:\project\couch\tags.php(2866) : eval()'d code  on line  4

How about this?

<cms:php>
global $accepted_langs, $selected_lang;
foreach( $accepted_langs as $lang ){
if ($lang == 'en'){$language = 'English'};
if ($lang == 'de'){$language = 'German'};
if ($lang == 'pl'){$language = 'Polish'};

$selected_class = ( $lang==$selected_lang ) ? ' selected' : '';
echo'<li class="'.$lang.$selected_class.'"><a href="<cms:show k_admin_link />switch.php?lang='.$lang.'&redirect='.urlencode($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]).'"><span>'.strtoupper($language).'</span></a></li>';
}
</cms:php>

My mistake. I put the ";" in the wrong place.

<cms:php>
global $accepted_langs, $selected_lang;
foreach( $accepted_langs as $lang ){
if ($lang == 'en'){$language = 'English';}
if ($lang == 'de'){$language = 'German';}
if ($lang == 'pl'){$language = 'Polish';}

$selected_class = ( $lang==$selected_lang ) ? ' selected' : '';
echo'<li class="'.$lang.$selected_class.'"><a href="<cms:show k_admin_link />switch.php?lang='.$lang.'&redirect='.urlencode($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]).'"><span>'.strtoupper($language).'</span></a></li>';
}
</cms:php>

[trendoman]

Automatically identify browser language during the first visit.

Hi
Because CouchCMS offers new ways of implementing method no 3 I wanted to ask if somebody could update the files (getter, menu, switch) to reflect changes like couchcms sessions, automatic language detection etc. I've tried to change the old code for the past 3 hours with no luck...
Also i noted that Safari doesn't keep the selected language when navigate to the home page like index.php, instead it switches to the default language - is that behaviour known? It works fine in Firefox and other browsers.
Thanks soo much

Since my last suggestion on 2014 is not working for the current version of couchcms.
Here I have another suggestion; as an example, there are 2 pages "en/lang.php" and "fr/lang.php"

Code for "en/lang.php";

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<cms:template title="Language Test">
    <cms:editable name="group_title" label="Title" desc="Page Title" type="group" group="group_desc">
        <cms:editable name="title_en" label="En Title" type="text" />
        <cms:editable name="title_fr" label="Fr Title" type="text" />
    </cms:editable>
</cms:template>
<cms:show title_en />

While for "fr/lang.php";

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<cms:php>$mylang="zhhant";</cms:php>
<cms:template title="Language Test (Trad.Chinese)" hidden="1" />
<cms:get_custom_field 'title_<?php echo $mylang;?>' masterpage='en/lang.php' />

So that our client can manage all the fields in the English template. and hide the Fr template from the admin panel.
For sure, it is much greater if we can have native language solution in the coming future.

Hi @gazzooid and welcome

Your approach is perfectly rational but, unfortunately, will not work in the current version of Couch.

The reason being that, the way things stand at 1.4, the format of the URLs is pretty much hardcoded and when Couch senses a deviation from the well known format, it issues a HTTP Redirect to what it considers as the correct URL.

We are in the process of changing this, though. The coming versions should allow user-configurable URLs. Your method would be perfectly feasible then.

Thanks for your input

[KK]

@gazzooid
Please check the following (particularly the last section dealing with prettyURLs) -
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=10979

Creating a separate editable region for each language
Can I change the layout to tabs（switcher）?
Just like the existing “group”, adding the “group” tag automatically becomes an Accordion component
So, add 'tabs' or 'switcher' tags, adminpanel well be change to tabs.
Like: EN, FR, DE

Multi-Lingual

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