Switch-language-button (front-end)

[Marcel]

Hey,

in the upper right corner of my page I (php noob) want an "EN" button when a user enters the website. If he/she wants to switch to english, he/she can hit the "EN" button and the content + navbar is in english.

What I have:

- I installed the language and multi language modules.

- I switched the content field (textarea) to multi-language.

So far the language is linked with the account settings. So in my "test-account" user's account, if I change from default to english, the website is in english - good.

But I don't have a login system in the front-end and I want this for guest users who don't have accounts. How can I trigger this?

 

Thank you in advance.

[wbmnfktr]

There is an example in the _main.php of the Multilanguage Site Profile.

You can see it here: https://github.com/processwire/processwire/blob/master/site-languages/templates/_main.php#L65

[szabesz]

4 hours ago, Marcel said:

How can I trigger this?

As long as the language switcher is concerned: if you only have two languages, then you can do this in your template file:

<a href="<?= $page->localUrl($languages->findOther()->first()) ?>"><?= $user->language->name == "default" ? "EN" : "HU" ?></a>

Regarding translatable strings, I recommend this method (but in the forum you can certainly find other methods too in order to get inspiration from) :

 

[pwired]

Here you go, pwired's super language switcher:

<ul>
<?php
$i = 1;
foreach($languages as $language) {
$var[$i] = $page->localUrl($language);
$i++;
}
echo "<li>" . "<a href=" . '"' . $var[3] . '"' . ">" . "Deutsch" . "</a>" . "</li>";
echo "<li>" . "<a href=" . '"' . $var[2] . '"' . ">" . "English" . "</a>" . "</li>";
echo "<li>" . "<a href=" . '"' . $var[1] . '"' . ">" . "Español" . "</a>" . "</li>";
?>
</ul>

Feel free to modify for your own needs, and beautify <ul>, <li> and <a> with your own custom css

Here is a recommended read not to fall into unexpected not working language urls:
https://processwire.com/talk/topic/19356-language-switcher-do-i-need-to-update-all-urls-in-the-api/

 

 

 

[Marcel]

Cool! Thank you guys! I will go through this all.

[Marcel]

Has anyone an idea how I can access the language tab of a field? And is this even possible?

When I try the following I just get the account related output (language):

$pages->get(1)->get("content_info");

But I would like to have like the particular language like

...->language->default

I don't find the right part in the api

 

thank you in advance