Programmatic way to determine if field is multi-language?

[bmacnaughton]

Is there a way to tell if a field is a multi-language field?

I am currently checking to see if the last 8 characters are 'Language' but that seems like a fragile solution.

 

 

[Peter Knight]

You mean via the API? 

I wanted the same thing over the weekend and found a post where Ryan provided some simple instructions. Don't have it to hand but will in the morning. It was something very simple along the lines of

if $language == 'french' ; echo {}

 

[kixe]

if ($fields->get('myfield')->type instanceof FieldtypeLanguageInterface) {
    // do something
}

'myfield' can be the fieldname or field-id

[Peter Knight]

I don't know if this answers your question but here's the post i mentioned

Essentially I just used this part

if($user->language->name == 'french') echo "and pdf_file is the French version.";

 

[bmacnaughton]

7 hours ago, kixe said:

if ($fields->get('myfield')->type instanceof FieldtypeLanguageInterface)

Perfect - thank you.

[bmacnaughton]

4 hours ago, Peter Knight said:

I don't know if this answers your question but here's the post i mentioned

Essentially I just used this part

if($user->language->name == 'french') echo "and pdf_file is the French version.";

 

Thanks. I was trying to find out if a field was multiple language as opposed to there being language alternate fields. But I appreciate the link.

[tpr]

On 6/12/2017 at 6:03 AM, kixe said:

if ($fields->get('myfield')->type instanceof FieldtypeLanguageInterface) {
    // do something
}

 

To avoid the notice "Trying to get property 'type' of non-object" and possible issues later it's better to check wether the field is really a Field:

$f = $fields->get('myfield');

if ($f instanceof Field && $f->type instanceof FieldtypeLanguageInterface) {
    // do something
}