Re: [Phpwiki-talk] About languages

[Carsten K. <car...@ma...>]

I found a code snippet demonstrating how to automatically determine the 
default language selected in a user's browser. May be useful for offering 
a default language choice in the user preferences.

Carsten

<?php
// language codes are comma delimited
$lang = strtok ( $HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE, "," );
while ( $lang ) {
     //if there is "en" in it
     if ( strstr ( $lang, "en" ) ) {
         header ( "Location: http://localhost/english/" );
         exit;
     }
     if ( strstr ( $lang, "es" ) ) {
         header ( "Location: http://localhost/castellano/" );
         exit;
     }
     if ( strstr ( $lang, "nl" ) ) {
         header ( "Location: http://localhost/nederlands/" );
         exit;
     }
     if ( strstr ( $lang, "de" ) ) {
         header ( "Location: http://localhost/deutsch/" );
         exit;
     }
     $lang = strtok( "," );
} //next token and end of while
// default relocation in case nothing got detected
header ("Location: http://localhost/english/");
exit;
?>


On Wednesday, November 28, 2001, at 11:40  am, Jeff Dairiki wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 10:08:36 +0000
> "Lawrence Akka" <la...@20...> wrote:
>
>> A few thoughts -
>>
>> 1)  The language of the interface should be user-selectable.  Just
> because
>> the [web|wiki]master has decided to set the locale as Italian, doesn't
> mean
>> that everyone wants to see Italian links/instructions.
>
> Yes, once we have real users and user preferences, that's probably a fine
> idea.
>