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 03/15/10 05:24am (Read 1,337 times)  
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::Ben

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Hello,

For a multilingual site I set 2 Language Files and 2 Languages in the config.

fr >> french
en >> english

I set also a contact_fr page and a contact_en page.

The question is: How to display the good page to users? If I use a link to the contact_fr page, how can I get the contact_en page if the user language is set to english?

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 03/15/10 10:59am  
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LWC

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Do you mean how to link from within your site? You can only do it on your own in PHP staticpages/blocks using COM_getLanguageId():

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global $_CONF;
$contact = array(
'en' => 'Contact me',
'fr' => 'Contactez-moi'
);
$contact = $contact[COM_getLanguageId()];

echo COM_createLink($contact, COM_buildURL($_CONF['site_url'] . '/article.php/contact_' . COM_getLanguageId())); // don't forget the "_" in "contact_"
 
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 03/15/10 01:24pm  
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Yes I try to make a contact page available in the menu elements via glmenu plugin.

Thanks.

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 03/15/10 03:22pm  
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The current concept (to avoid the word "hack" ...) doesn't support a language-neutral link to a multilingual page.

It's been a while since I used glMenu. Can you not hook up a function to a menu entry? That function could then use the correct link, depending on the current language.

bye, Dirk
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 03/15/10 06:25pm  
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Yes thank you.

So I added a function in the lib-custom.php file

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function glmenu_showpage_contact() {
 
    global $_CONF;
       
    $labels = array(
        'en' => 'Contact me',
        'fr' => 'Contactez-moi'
    );

        $label = $labels[COM_getLanguageId()];
        $retval = '<li>' . COM_createLink($label, COM_buildURL($_CONF['site_url'] . '/staticpages/index.php/contact_' . COM_getLanguageId())) . '</li>';
       
        return $retval;
}


and set this function in the glmenu Edit menuitem aera.

It's working but it's a long job because I need to set this for 20 different labels (1 per page) and I will need to implement a new function for each new page.

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 03/15/10 06:45pm  
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LWC

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Better change
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$label = $labels[COM_getLanguageId()];

to
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$default = "en";
$label = "";
if (isset($labels[COM_getLanguageId()]))
   $label = $labels[COM_getLanguageId()];
elseif (isset($labels[$default]))
   $label = $labels[$default];
 


Right now you have to hardcode the default. There's a feature request of having a setting for it (and a corresponding function to retrieve it).
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