Language-selection for guest

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Hallo,

the vB3 offers the chance to have multi languages, but at the moment it is unfortunally only for registred / logged-in users possible to select a language. Guests / not logged-in users will see always the default language.

With this modification you can offer your guests / not-logged-in users an option to select a language, so they can see the forum and the registration in the selected language. Further the selected language will be set during the registratin as default for the new user.


Short-description

Language-Selection for not logged-in users


Requirements

• vB3 RC1 or higher (Tested up to 3.0.7) NOTE !! For installation on 3.0.8 or above read this posting !! Thanks to Khashyar for finding this change !

• Of cource more than one installed language, otherwise this modification make no sense

Installationtime

about 5 minutes


The use of this modification is as always at your own risk !


J?rg


Update 05. January 2004 (added version 2)

Update 09. March 2004 (added version 3)

Update 27. March 2004: Tested in 3.0.0 Gold



Version 1:

In this version you have to enter for each language a menue-entry manually

Version 2:

This version detects the selectable languages automaticly and the menue-entries are created automaticly too. To get the menue-entries, the function "Use DHTML Popup Menus" must be activated. This version has an additional query with each page-call. If you don't like this, use version 1.

Version 3:

This version is based on version 1, but it detects the browser-language automatic and shows the board in the language of the user. This automatic-detection of the user-language was realised by WildChild. Thanks for this extension of my hack. Note the difference to my version 2: My Version 2 detects the installed languages automatic, version 3 detects the language which is set in the users browser !



Note: A german version of the installation-instructions you will find here at vbulletin-germany.com

[Merjawy]

Now to the strange part

I did install the first part of the hack, edited sessions.php and register.php and I stopped right there for now

I change the default to other than en and also did that somewhere little down the hack,

anyway
now everything looks cool, but while I was still admin I ponited my browser to the forum adding the ?&guestlanguageid=1 and then 2
ofcourse I am not a guest so that didn't do nothing

I loged out, now I did that again and it worked, BUT when I used 1 I get english which is not the default language and not #1 in sessions.php and when I do 2 I get the default lang... now thats fine I can live with it and I am sure I can fix it too

this is what made me post now
I noticed in my nabar now I have 2 new links
Mark all forums as read
Open buddly list

now why they showing up in nav bar now?
I checked navar and they are there and uncommented but they never show up in my navbar on two sites, now after this hack they show in all tempates on this one site

so for now I had to comment them out in my navbar till I figure out why they showing


I looked at both sites and the navra is the same

non the less, this hack is great and I am gonna use it even if my name pops in navbar

[Merjawy]

Its me.. I knew it

I was messing with settings, and I disabled the use of DHTML menu under vB options and I got a phone call, took me away from what I was doing when I came back, I installed the hack and thats when I saw what I did before the hack

so nevermind, the problem is fixed

[Merjawy]

All systems good to go mate thanks

theres one little issue, for now I managed to over come it but it needs fix
I use a portal (vBadvanaced CMPS) in the root and my forum in a directory under it, all work fine but when a guest is on portal (root) they change language link won't work, it will just take them to my root directroy where I have index.html as a front-end loader (which will load index.php of the portal once clicked).

a guest in forum, they click the lang change, the URL will be /forum/index.php?guestXXXXX

a geust in portal, they click the lang change, the URL will be /?guestlanguageXXXXXXXXX

that might work if I only had 1 index in my root, but I have 2 index.html loads first then it loads index.php once clicked


I managed to temp fix it by adding a "/" at the begining of the varialble ($vboptions[forumhome].php?XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX)

This makes it take the guest to the main root index.php (portal) no matter where the guest clicked the lingo change (in portal or forum)

I hope that made any sence but for now it works non the less

thnx again

next step is installing the change for members .. can't wait

[Merjawy]

Originally Posted by JoergZ

O.k., here we go:

To change the language use the following line in the navbar template:

PHP Code:

 <tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="changelanguage.php?$session[sessionurl]languageid=1">Name of language 1</a></td></tr> 
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="changelanguage.php?$session[sessionurl]languageid=2">Name of language 2</a></td></tr> 


J?rg

can I change Name of language 1 / Name of language 2 to
$vbphrase[lang01] / $vbphrase[lang02] ?


thnx

[JoergZ]

Yes of course ! It was only an example

Nice to hear, that it works for you. Concerning the portal-thing, sorry, but I have no portal, so I don't thought about, that the link won't work in this case

[Merjawy]

Thank you sir , well done... just that little thing about portal as most people do use portals, and for me I use 2 indexes ..

Installed on one site and soon on another

[Merjawy]

Sweet..
I managed to make it a drop down menu for memeber/guests as I have about 6 languages and can't put them all in navbar

The link will show always, but the options for guests will show to guests and will only show member options for members love it

[JoergZ]

Fine.. I think for members it is not really necessary, because no one changes the language after he selected it once, but I think for guests it should be standard... Well, maybe in 3.1.0

[alexisbellido]

Thank you very much JoergZ for such a useful hack. I have just installed in my english / spanish forums.

Best regards!

[Eagle Creek]

PERFECT, GREAT, FANTASTIC!! I was so hard looking for this
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Thank you!
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