Alternative headder and footer.php (language)

[Guest]

I have a dual language support question. I know that osCommerce supports language packs (which is great) however my site is based on a template I purchased which has modified headder and footer.php files in the catalog/includes directory.

 

Where I would like some advice is how to point to the alternative language header and footer.php files (in which I inserted the relevant translations) that I have created from the original header and footer.php files (located in includes).

 

Any advice would be welcome.

[germ]

<?php 
 if ( $language == 'english' ) {
require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'header1.php'); // name of english header file here
 else
require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'header2.php');  // name of other language header file here
 }
?>

Do the same with the footer.

;)

[Guest]

Thanks Germ, I appreciate the tip :)

[♥geoffreywalton]

If the change is just to text you could put the translations into /includes/english.php, /includes/spanish.php etc and use the normal method to get the text to display in the appropriate language.

 

If it includes language images this can also be handled like language buttons.