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

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


Requirements

• vB 3.6 (Tested with 3.6.2)
• Of course more than one installed and selectable language, otherwise this modification makes no sense

Installation-time

about 1 minutes


PLEASE CLICK THE INSTALL BUTTON IF INSTALLED!


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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

[Greek76]

I installed but doesnt seem to work. Where it says x or xx I forget I replaced it with the language I would like. I added tha language on my browser did what you said but no good. Any ideas?

[JoergZ]

Hi Greek76 !

The only idea I have is the following: After you have added a different language-preferenz to your browser, have you changed the order, so the new language is on top ?

And it is important, that you logout from your board, and do not click anything after logging out, otherwise again a cookie would be set. So logout, and then close the browser window, then start your browser again.

What browser are you using ? I admit, I have tested it only with IE 6.0. But it should work with all browsers.

Best regards

Jörg

[lapinkulta]

wonderfull hack, very usefull.

one question: can i assign a specific style together with the language? will this work also for guests or for users only?

greetings,
lapinkulta

[JoergZ]

Originally Posted by lapinkulta

one question: can i assign a specific style together with the language? will this work also for guests or for users only?

Never thought about that. I will check this. If it works, then it would be also only for first-time visitors with no cookie. The user is always able to change the style.


BR

J?rg

[lapinkulta]

yes, would be nice for replacement variables in different languages. i am using something like that which works only for logged in users, not for guests:

if ($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] == "en.domain.com") {
				$_REQUEST['langid'] = 3;
$_REQUEST['styleid'] = 4;
		} elseif ($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] == "de.domain.com") {
				$_REQUEST['langid'] = 2;
$_REQUEST['styleid'] = 3;
		} else {
				$_REQUEST['langid'] = 16;
$_REQUEST['styleid'] = 5;
		}

[localrelax]

Thanks, it works on 3.6.4

[domainsTRADER]

tanks nice idea

[bjhuang]

can not change language settings from control panel after installed.

[zhaoke]

This sounds great, but it not works on 3.6.8, the below is my settings:
(i checked language code settings, zh-cn_id: 11, en-US_id: 1)

$_DLANG='en-US';

'en-US', # english.
'zh-cn' # chinese.

case 'en-US':
$_REQUEST['langid'] = 1;
break;
case 'zh':
$_REQUEST['langid'] = 11;
break;

[Kirauni]

*installed this add-on*

It works fine on my vBulletin 3.6.8.
However, I had to delete all my browser's temporary files, cookies etc.
Right after this I switched my browser's language and then it worked perfectly.

Thank you very much for this nice hack, it makes browsing a multilingual board as a guest much easier.