Windows behaviour

dstonek

WinXP IE6. Testing page: www.stonek.com/main.php
Testing language and menu links. I get erratical behaviours: sudden language changes when clicking on a menu link. It is the same in Win98 IE5. But in MAC 10.2 IE5.2 it works fine.
Dynamic table.
Please any help and thanks in advance.
Here is the begining of the code.
$sess_lang is a session variable, $lang_original is the original language, lang_new is an URL variable.

<?php session_cache_limiter('public');
session_start();
ob_start (); echo "init_sess_lang:",$sess_lang;
session_register("sess_lang");?>

<?php $lang_original = $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'];
$lang_original = substr ($lang_original,0,2);
echo " original_lang:", $lang_original;
if ($lang_original == "es"):
else:
$lang_original = "en";
endif;

if ($sess_lang == ""):
$sess_lang = $lang_original;
else:
endif;

if ($HTTP_GET_VARS['lang_new']==""):
else:
$sess_lang = $HTTP_GET_VARS['lang_new'];
endif; echo " sess_lang:",$sess_lang; ?>

rpanning

Taking a look at the code, some of it looks a little ify'. The echos with commas trying to concatenate is one thing. I just ran through the code and cleaned it up a little, give this a shot and let me know how it goes.

<?php 
session_cache_limiter('public');
session_start();
ob_start();
print('init_sess_lang: ' . $sess_lang);
session_register('sess_lang');

$lang_original = substr($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'],0,2);
print('original_lang: ' . $lang_original);
if ($lang_original != 'es') {
    $lang_original = 'en';
}

if ($sess_lang == '') {
    $sess_lang = $lang_original;
}

if ($HTTP_GET_VARS['lang_new'] != '') {
    $sess_lang = $HTTP_GET_VARS['lang_new'];
}
print('sess_lang: ' . $sess_lang);
?>

dstonek

Thanks for your answer. I really don´t know if your code is better.
My knowledge of php is poor. I´ve substituted the codes but Win tests are a mess. Windows "remembers" (cache or whatever) the old file despite I ctrl-reload the page the first time. All links send the user to the same page with different results (A sky blue text in this case, english or spanish, at bottom).
I´ve added some extra ":" in your code to see which one is used.
Sometimes your code is used and sometimes the old mine.
MAC Ok.

dstonek

I think I am understanding what´s happening.
English or Spanish tables have exactly the same link.
The output differs if session variable $sess_lang is "en" or "es".
That should be.

If you click one of the English links (call it A-en) and then change the language and follow the same link but in Spanish your output will be A-en again instead of A-es. Staying in Spanish, if you click on another link (call it B-es) you will get a Spanish output. But when you go back to English language and click on B-en you´ll get B-es output.

It seems like IE 6 for Windows (not Mac version) gets the cached output of a previous followed link in the other language.

Is there a solution for this or do I have to rewrite the code?.
Thank you, Daniel.