[RESOLVED] auto-detect language..

[pettsogn]

I want to make so that when english visitors comes my site they get english as primary language and when spanish visitors come they get spanish and so on..

How can i do that..?

I'm thankful for any kind of help 🙂

[halojoy]

🙂

Hola - Hello
Click at your language prefered.

I wouldnt bother to try to figure out what language my guests prefer.
Your members users can have their language set in profle and remembered in Cookies and Database.

Even if you should manage to see what country IP-number of guest is,
we can not know what language they use on internet.
Even if i come from Sweden, I hardly ever use svenska (swedish) on web.

Make it 2 or more FLAGS ICONS
and let your guests use WHAT THEY PREFER
Even this is a better service, than most websites have!

The chance you would get lucky and it would match,
after going through php code
and lists of IP-number is very small.
Just a waste of scripting executing time (slows down your pages)
and work, in my humble opinion.[right]Make it easy - Use 2 or more FLAGS icon.gif
It is work enough for anyone to try to make good translations of web pages
or language include files for even 3-4 languages

a KIS from halojoy

KIS = Keep It Simple ...... easy and fast!

🙂 🆒 🙂 [/right]

[pettsogn]

ok, thanks, i'll do that 🙂

[halojoy]

hej igen
vem fan
du än är

If it is a member or not,
you can start a SESSION for any surfer at your website
and to begin with set

session_start();
$_SESSION[ "lang" ] = "english"; // or "default"

In any page where this surfer make a language choice
or if visitor is a member and Log In
you can let page change this variable accordingly:

session_start();
$choice_made = "something";
$SESSION[ "lang" ] = $choice_made;
or
$SESSION[ "lang" ] = $loggedin_user_data_language;

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THE GOOGLE WAY of language for visitor

www.google.com always try to find out what language
anyone visitor would prefer or is having.
If you have set it in "Google preferences" (where you can set also how many hits on each serch result page)
this is used.
This preference you once made is in a Cookie in your PC - C:/internet stuff/cookies/
Google stores nothing about you in google.com server (I hope)

If no cookie is found, they try to find some other info.
I guess they examine some Browser or Internet settings in your PC.

If this is not found, they will set your language to English
and Store it in a Cookie (if you allow cookies = Enabled for google)

🙂 🙂
Next time they (google script) will find this cookie,
and does not bother trying to search for info in Browser and your Internet settings.
this cookie value is then copied into your 'google SESSION'
and is there until you end (close down your browser, or SESSION times out)

session_start();
$visitor_Cookie_language_settting = $COOKIE_lang_data;
$_SESSION[ "lang" ] = $visitor_Cookie_language_setting;

include ( "/languages/" . $_SESSION[ "lang" ] . ".php";

Google.se - google in swedish

google cookie data found in halojoy Cookie folder:

[b]###google##u###PREF##]ID=3dfa07c4fdgh43211:FF=4:LD=en:NR=50:NW=1:CR=2:TM=1119134028[/b]

Notice:
PREF ( preferences )
LD=en ( language default = english )
NR=50 ( I want 50 hits on each page of search result, def=10 )