Automatic language selection

[John Jesen]

Is this functionality standard now in MS2? There is a contrib for this (MS1), but I guess no need to install it if it already is implemented, but I am a little unsecure about whether this is actually the case.

 

How does this language detection work ? I suppose the languages in OSC need to be named in a way that the browser can identify, but is that English country names, ie. "Danish" rather than "Dansk" or ???

 

This subject is a little hard to test unless you have access to more PC's with different language setup's

 

Thanks for any help!

 

John

[Guest]

Check in includes/application_top.php around line 216 for this:

// verify the browser user agent if the feature is enabled

 if (SESSION_CHECK_USER_AGENT == 'True') {

   $http_user_agent = getenv('HTTP_USER_AGENT');

   if (!tep_session_is_registered('SESSION_USER_AGENT')) {

     $SESSION_USER_AGENT = $http_user_agent;

     tep_session_register('SESSION_USER_AGENT');

   }



   if ($SESSION_USER_AGENT != $http_user_agent) {

     tep_session_destroy();

     tep_redirect(tep_href_link(FILENAME_LOGIN));

   }

 }

 

HTH

The_Bear

[John Jesen]

Yes, I have this code in application_top.php at the mentioned location, but further down it says:

// 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'];

 }

 

I guess it is here that language - maybe (I can't look throgh the code) - are being set.

 

But if yes, could you then tell how to name my languages i OSC? Thanks.

 

John

[John Jesen]

From the previous answer I guess that some kind of automatic language detection is included in osCommerce (must admit that I cannot read PHP code).

 

But how does it work? Guess that I have to use some kind of standardized coding for languages in Admin language setup (eg. "en" for english). But how about other languages, eg. Danish, is it "dk", "de", "dn" or.

 

John

[Guest]

I don't think you have to do anything to set it up. It will automatically read the language of the browser the person is using and set the appropriate language if it has it.

 

So the default installation comes with English, Spanish and German; anyone in Spain or Germany would see their language. But I assume that anyone from, say, France, would see the English version, as that would be the default.

 

I only knew this because I have friends in both Spain and Germany and when I said, "go and look at my fantastic new shop," they said all they could see was a rubbish translation. And I hadn't put any product descriptions or anything, so I was lucky they told me.