PayPal language

[klieder]

<_< Hello,

 

I have a shop with Dutch and English language. When I checkout in dutch, paypal gives me a dutch payment page. However, my American customers are also getting the dutch payment page from paypal.

 

Does anyone know how paypal gets the language information?

 

Thanks,

 

Ron

[♥Monika in Germany]

what paypal module are you using? there is a parameter that determines the language and that can be added with a switch statement

 

I added this to the process function of my paypal_ipn.php file:

 

if ($language == 'english') {

$my_lang = 'us';

} else {

$my_lang = 'de';

}

 

further down, I add this value as a parameter:

$parameters['lc'] = $my_lang;

 

I added it right above the notify_url parameter.

 

This is a nice solution for single language countries, sadly paypal has not considered Belgium, Italy or Switzerland and has a set language for those ... so submitting French will not help for Switzerland as German is set the be its language. Just a FYI ... and BTW paypla knows and has known for a long time, still no updated version.

[klieder]

I was using the "regular" module, until I opened a new account, and then stuff happened :-)

 

Today I installed the IPN v 1.3 module, still the dutch page came up.

 

I'll try your lines and report back,

 

thanks,

 

Ron

[klieder]

Hi Monika,

 

Well, it works probably as you meant it to. I know because I got a German Paypal page as I forgot to change it to nl . But now I had my website on English language and still got the german page.

 

Is the 'english' in your statement a browser detect?

 

I am getting confused with the language thing, as I also have another thing with thelanguage and currency, in Dutch I get the USD (default), but I set the Euro as a default in dutch.php and in My Store ticked the Switch To Default Language Currency to true.

 

So, am I missing something? Or just not very smart :-"

 

Thanx,

 

Ron

 

 

btw...as a quick fix i set the 'de' parameter also to 'us' , so at least all my customers can read PayPalying!