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[Martin]

This is the support topic for the tutorial Allow guests to choose a language.  Please post here if you have any questions or feedback.

[Tom]

signature said:

Oh, you like it?

I like it! Donation sent to norway!

Was so long looking for a working solution! Cheers and 1k Thx for making the language switch available!

[Adriano Faria]

Very nice!

[Martin]

Thanks to both of you!

[Tom]

m4rtin,

with the dropdown box the language selection works very well.
Do you see any chance that it would work also when a user clicks on the country flags in the header?
Currently it chance the language after the second click.

Edited by Tom, 11 March 2009 - 12:56 PM.

[Martin]

Add "&cal_id=0" at the end of the links

[Tom]

m4rtin, on Jan 31 2008, 06:51 PM, said:

Add "&cal_id=0" at the end of the links

Thx!

[Tom]

Hi m4rtin, I have set the Default Language to '3' (via Look and Feel => make default). I have checked the conf_global.php and it suits (also '3').

WhatI dont understand is why English is still default when i open the forum page as guest? Could it be that i have to change anything else to make it working?


Tia
Tom

Edited by Tom, 08 September 2008 - 08:26 AM.

[Tom]

Does anyone else have an explanationwhy switching language (ACP functionality) does not work?

Tia
Tom

[Tom]

*bump*

[Martin]

That weird. When new members register, what's their default language?

[Tom]

I've two languages available and want to switch the default language to German.  
Unfortunately the ACP Switch does not have any effect what Language Guests are seeing. That is really odd and I have no reasonable explanation why it doesnt work.

[Martin]

You didn't answer my question. If new members have English as their default language, it's a problem with the default files, or any other modification.
If it's German, it's something wrong with this tutorial.

[Schranzer]

Tom, on Sep 15 2008, 05:01 PM, said:

I've two languages available and want to switch the default language to German.  
Unfortunately the ACP Switch does not have any effect what Language Guests are seeing. That is really odd and I have no reasonable explanation why it doesnt work.

Yep, i have exactly the same problem...

My default language is german (lang_cache/3/)

If i want to change it into english, the page is reloading, and in the drop down i read language is english but my board language is german

Sometimes i read German in the drop down box but my forum language is english in iexplorer?!

My Forum default language is german, but if i log out as guest, my forum is in english language...

[Tom]

m4rtin, on Sep 15 2008, 03:04 PM, said:

That weird. When new members register, what's their default language?

m4rtin, on Sep 15 2008, 04:03 PM, said:

You didn't answer my question. If new members have English as their default language, it's a problem with the default files, or any other modification.
If it's German, it's something wrong with this tutorial.

Some users registering using the english page, some of them are switch to german before the apply for a membership.
(and that the problem: I want to make German as default, but this is not possible - In ACP it tells me default, but browsing as guest to the forum english is still the standard)

[Martin]

Alrighty!
I finally managed to find a solution to this!

Open index.php
Find:

//--------------------------------
// Did we choose a language?
//--------------------------------

if ( (isset($ipsclass->input['setlanguage']) AND $ipsclass->input['setlanguage']) AND (isset($ipsclass->input['langid']) AND $ipsclass->input['langid']) )
{
	if ( is_array( $ipsclass->cache['languages'] ) and count( $ipsclass->cache['languages'] ) )
	{
		foreach( $ipsclass->cache['languages'] as $data )
		{
			if ( $data['ldir'] == $ipsclass->input['langid'] )
			{
				if( $ipsclass->member['id'] == 0 )
				{

					$ipsclass->my_setcookie( 'language', $data['ldir'] );
				}
				else
				{
					$ipsclass->DB->do_update( 'members', array( 'language' => $data['ldir'] ), 'id='.$ipsclass->member['id'] );
				}
				
				$ipsclass->member['language'] = $data['ldir'];
			}
		}
	}
}

Replace with:

//--------------------------------
// Did we choose a language?
//--------------------------------

if ( (isset($ipsclass->input['setlanguage']) AND $ipsclass->input['setlanguage']) AND (isset($ipsclass->input['langid']) AND $ipsclass->input['langid']) )
{
	if ( is_array( $ipsclass->cache['languages'] ) and count( $ipsclass->cache['languages'] ) )
	{
		foreach( $ipsclass->cache['languages'] as $data )
		{
			if ( $data['ldir'] == $ipsclass->input['langid'] )
			{
				if( $ipsclass->member['id'] == 0 )
				{

					$ipsclass->my_setcookie( 'language', $data['ldir'] );
				}
				else
				{
					$ipsclass->DB->do_update( 'members', array( 'language' => $data['ldir'] ), 'id='.$ipsclass->member['id'] );
				}
				
				$ipsclass->member['language'] = $data['ldir'];
			}
		}
	}
}
else
{
	if( $ipsclass->member['id'] == 0 )
	{
		if( $ipsclass->my_getcookie( 'language' ) == 0 )
		{
			$ipsclass->my_setcookie( 'language', $ipsclass->vars['default_language'] );
		}
	}
}

Save and upload

[Tom]

Thank you very much for re-viewing the code m4rtin.
It works now, we have checked this from various sources.

Cheers!

[Martin]

Great to have it out of my head

[Schranzer]

m4rtin, on Oct 10 2008, 01:50 PM, said:

Great to have it out of my head

heheheeh  
THANK YOU MAN!!!

[v0rtex]

Nice one and working as intended BTW: I have always wondered why IPS never though about adding an option like this at least for the regristration process, where choosing a language is so valuable for boards with more than one language installed.