German IP won't default on english language page

[livingplanet]

I recently received an email from a German customer who said he keeps getting redirected in my store to a German language page (which I currently do not have setup for my store). He claims it's because he has a German ip address and Mysql is choosing to redirect.

 

Has anyone ever heard of a problem like this? If so, how did you fix it?

I'm pretty handy with php so editing code is not a problem. I'd like to direct everyone to the english page and cut out any code (if it exists) that redirects customers to their country pages.

 

Thanks so much,

Mark

[germ]

I'd say it's more likely the shop is detecting the browser language and going off that cue.

 

I didn't want to uninstall or delete the language files from the store (truthfully - just because I was afraid of breaking something! :lol: ).

 

So I did the same thing with these code changes:

 

/catalog/includes/boxes/languages.php

 

  while (list($key, $value) = each($lng->catalog_languages)) {
$languages_string .= ' <a href="' . tep_href_link(basename($PHP_SELF), tep_get_all_get_params(array('language', 'currency')) . 'language=' . $key, $request_type) . '">' . tep_image(DIR_WS_LANGUAGES .  $value['directory'] . '/images/' . $value['image'], $value['name']) . '</a> ';

break; // <-- added this line oly!
 }

(That works only if and because engish is the first language).

 

/catalog/includes/application_top.php

 

Old code:

 

// set the language
 if (!tep_session_is_registered('language') || isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['language'])) {
if (!tep_session_is_registered('language')) {
  tep_session_register('language');
  tep_session_register('languages_id');
}

include(DIR_WS_CLASSES . 'language.php');
$lng = new language();

if (isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['language']) && tep_not_null($HTTP_GET_VARS['language'])) {
  $lng->set_language($HTTP_GET_VARS['language']);
} else {
  $lng->get_browser_language();
}

$language = $lng->language['directory'];
$languages_id = $lng->language['id'];
 }

New code:

 

// set the language
 if (!tep_session_is_registered('language') || isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['language'])) {

$language = 'en';

if (!tep_session_is_registered('language')) {
  tep_session_register('language');
  tep_session_register('languages_id');
}

include(DIR_WS_CLASSES . 'language.php');
$lng = new language();

if (isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['language']) && tep_not_null($HTTP_GET_VARS['language'])) {
  $language = 'en';
  $lng->set_language($language);
}
//	  $lng->set_language($HTTP_GET_VARS['language']);
//	} else {
//	  $lng->get_browser_language();
//	}

$language = $lng->language['directory'];
$languages_id = $lng->language['id'];
 }

This worked for me to keep it all in english (even if they append a language to the URL in the browser) without removing or uninstalling any language files.

 

Your milegae may vary.

:blush:

[livingplanet]

Thanks so much for your advice! :lol:

[theherbman]

Thanks so much for your advice! :lol:

 

Posted in wrong place sorry

Edited February 17, 2010 by theherbman

[giangios]

I'd say it's more likely the shop is detecting the browser language and going off that cue.

 

I didn't want to uninstall or delete the language files from the store (truthfully - just because I was afraid of breaking something! :lol: ).

 

So I did the same thing with these code changes:

 

/catalog/includes/boxes/languages.php

 

  while (list($key, $value) = each($lng->catalog_languages)) {
$languages_string .= ' <a href="' . tep_href_link(basename($PHP_SELF), tep_get_all_get_params(array('language', 'currency')) . 'language=' . $key, $request_type) . '">' . tep_image(DIR_WS_LANGUAGES .  $value['directory'] . '/images/' . $value['image'], $value['name']) . '</a> ';

break; // <-- added this line oly!
 }

(That works only if and because engish is the first language).

 

/catalog/includes/application_top.php

 

Old code:

 

// set the language
 if (!tep_session_is_registered('language') || isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['language'])) {
if (!tep_session_is_registered('language')) {
  tep_session_register('language');
  tep_session_register('languages_id');
}

include(DIR_WS_CLASSES . 'language.php');
$lng = new language();

if (isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['language']) && tep_not_null($HTTP_GET_VARS['language'])) {
  $lng->set_language($HTTP_GET_VARS['language']);
} else {
  $lng->get_browser_language();
}

$language = $lng->language['directory'];
$languages_id = $lng->language['id'];
 }

New code:

 

// set the language
 if (!tep_session_is_registered('language') || isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['language'])) {

$language = 'en';

if (!tep_session_is_registered('language')) {
  tep_session_register('language');
  tep_session_register('languages_id');
}

include(DIR_WS_CLASSES . 'language.php');
$lng = new language();

if (isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['language']) && tep_not_null($HTTP_GET_VARS['language'])) {
  $language = 'en';
  $lng->set_language($language);
}
//	  $lng->set_language($HTTP_GET_VARS['language']);
//	} else {
//	  $lng->get_browser_language();
//	}

$language = $lng->language['directory'];
$languages_id = $lng->language['id'];
 }

This worked for me to keep it all in english (even if they append a language to the URL in the browser) without removing or uninstalling any language files.

 

Your milegae may vary.

:blush:

 

I have tryed the new code, but in that case I could not use the box with different languages, so I believe the change I report below is more appropriate, we use a kind of "hard coded" default language and then the user can still choose to change language if the language box is activated.

 

Here my code:

 

// set the language
 if (!tep_session_is_registered('language') || isset($_GET['language'])) {

   $language = 'it'; //giangios - line added

   if (!tep_session_is_registered('language')) {
     tep_session_register('language');
     tep_session_register('languages_id');
   }

   include(DIR_WS_CLASSES . 'language.php');
   $lng = new language();

   if (isset($_GET['language']) && tep_not_null($_GET['language'])) {       
     $lng->set_language($_GET['language']);
   }
   else {      
     $lng->set_language($language);  //giangios - line added
     //$lng->get_browser_language(); //giangios - line commented out
   }

   $language = $lng->language['directory'];
   $languages_id = $lng->language['id'];
 }