Set forum-language automatic to browser-language for first-visitors

Originally I have not planned to bring my Hack "Language Selection for Guests" to vB 3.5, because in 3.5 the language can be selected with the drop-down menu at the bottom.

But I was asked to make the automatic language-detection in 3.5 available. In case others are maybe interested in that too, I bring it here as new hack for vB 3.5


Short-description

This Hack detects the browser-language automatic and shows the board in the language of the user, if the user has never been at your board before or has no cookie for your board.

The automatic-detection of the browser-language was realised by WildChild


Requirements

• vB 3.5 Gold (Tested up to 3.5.1)
• Of course more than one installed and selectable language, otherwise this modification makes no sens

Installation-time

about 1 minutes


PLEASE CLICK THE INSTALL BUTTON IF INSTALLED!


Updates

01.10.2005 Thanks to the help of KirbyDE, now a standard-hook is used, so no code-modification is necessary

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If you want to test the hack after installing, do it like this:

- Log out of your forum. Dont klick any of the displayed links after logging out !
- Close your browser-window
- Open a new browser-window
- Set your language preferences in the browser
- Go to your forum homepage

[Brandon Sheley]

my client is going to kill me

do you know how I can remove this ? I tried going into myphpadmin and deleting the plugin..

can you post what all to remove from this plugin ?

thank you

[Brandon Sheley]

okay, got it working again.. whew.. hope they didn't see that..lol

I'll wait till next week,, but we'll be cutting the time close.. this was one they Really want.. I can throw some $ in if that helps

[JoergZ]

Hi Loco !

Sorry to hear that your site was down.

But also sorry to say, that

1.) You can see in the thread, that it is not prove from me, that the hack is working with 3.6.x

2.) I can't understand why people install hacks in their productive environment before testing any change in a local test-installation. If someone has a private fun-board and don't want to do that, o.k. but honestly, doing that with a page, that brings money, I have no understanding.

As I said, I will try to prepare it for 3.6.2 as soon, as RL give me a little bit time.


Best regards

Jörg

[EDIT] O.k. that was easier than I thought: The plugin is working as it is for 3.6.2 (So probalby it works also for 3.6.0 and 3.6.1 but have not tested the other 3.6 versions.)

That mean, you probably have done something wrong, when you modified to plugin to set it to the correct languages. Please read again the instruction in the xml-file and do only the modification as it is described there.

I will publish the hack on the weekend in the 3.6 area with a exact description in the text-file, so no one can miss it what and how to change.
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[Brandon Sheley]

Thank you for the time in updating this hack

and ya, I know I should have used it on a test board first..

[tomawebdev]

ُThank you, i am using 3.7 and it work fine for me, what i want to add, is the redirection to a specific forum! if language is French it will change language to French and go to forum (forumdisplay.php?f=31)

[JoergZ]

Feel free to make this modification for you board.. :-) Or do you want to know how to do that ?

If your post is a question how to do that, I must tell you, that I don't know it. If I have a chance to check this, I will give you an info.

Br

Joerg

[joh]

can this be made to work with 3.8

[Charlie98902]

Originally Posted by joh

can this be made to work with 3.8

I second this as it would be nice that VB does this for users around the world.

I tried it in 3.8 and had to edit the config.php to disable plugins so I can remove it.