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|  PHP Client Language Detection
Hey all,
Found a nice snippet here. It parses the server variable HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE and grabs the preferred language of the browser client. This can be very useful when targeting certain languages/countries. ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/code/698172-php-client-language-detection.html
If you use an advertising service that pays only for views from a certain country, you're not getting paid for a great chunk of your bandwidth usage to other countries. You can use this to display different ads for different languages, or redirect to a translated version of your site. It's got many uses. PHP Code: <?php
/*
Script Name: Full Operating system language detection
Author: Harald Hope, Website: [url]http://techpatterns.com/[/url]
Script Source URI: [url]http://techpatterns.com/downloads/php_language_detection.php[/url]
Version 0.3.6
Copyright (C) 8 December 2008
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
Get the full text of the GPL here: [url]http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt[/url]
Coding conventions:
[url]http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/phpbb/phpBB2/docs/codingstandards.htm?rev=1.3[/url]
*/
/*
Changes:
0.3.6 - added possible $feature values to comment header section
*/
/******************************************
Script is currently set to accept 2 parameters, triggered by $feature value.
for example, get_languages( 'data' ):
1. 'header' - sets header values, for redirects etc. No data is returned
2. 'data' - for language data handling, ie for stats, etc.
Returns an array of the following 4 item array for each language the os supports:
1. full language abbreviation, like en-ca
2. primary language, like en
3. full language string, like English (Canada)
4. primary language string, like English
*******************************************/
// choice of redirection header or just getting language data
// to call this you only need to use the $feature parameter
function get_languages( $feature, $spare='' )
{
// get the languages
$a_languages = languages();
$index = '';
$complete = '';
$found = false;// set to default value
//prepare user language array
$user_languages = array();
//check to see if language is set
if ( isset( $_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"] ) )
{
$languages = strtolower( $_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"] );
// $languages = ' fr-ch;q=0.3, da, en-us;q=0.8, en;q=0.5, fr;q=0.3';
// need to remove spaces from strings to avoid error
$languages = str_replace( ' ', '', $languages );
$languages = explode( ",", $languages );
//$languages = explode( ",", $test);// this is for testing purposes only
foreach ( $languages as $language_list )
{
// pull out the language, place languages into array of full and primary
// string structure:
$temp_array = array();
// slice out the part before ; on first step, the part before - on second, place into array
$temp_array[0] = substr( $language_list, 0, strcspn( $language_list, ';' ) );//full language
$temp_array[1] = substr( $language_list, 0, 2 );// cut out primary language
//place this array into main $user_languages language array
$user_languages[] = $temp_array;
}
//start going through each one
for ( $i = 0; $i < count( $user_languages ); $i++ )
{
foreach ( $a_languages as $index => $complete )
{
if ( $index == $user_languages[$i][0] )
{
// complete language, like english (canada)
$user_languages[$i][2] = $complete;
// extract working language, like english
$user_languages[$i][3] = substr( $complete, 0, strcspn( $complete, ' (' ) );
}
}
}
}
else// if no languages found
{
$user_languages[0] = array( '','','','' ); //return blank array.
}
// print_r($user_languages);
// return parameters
if ( $feature == 'data' )
{
return $user_languages;
}
// this is just a sample, replace target language and file names with your own.
elseif ( $feature == 'header' )
{
switch ( $user_languages[0][1] )// get default primary language, the first one in array that is
{
case 'en':
$location = 'english.php';
$found = true;
break;
case 'sp':
$location = 'spanish.php';
$found = true;
break;
default:
break;
}
if ( $found )
{
header("Location: $location");
}
else// make sure you have a default page to send them to
{
header("Location: default.php");
}
}
}
function languages()
{
// pack abbreviation/language array
// important note: you must have the default language as the last item in each major language, after all the
// en-ca type entries, so en would be last in that case
$a_languages = array(
'af' => 'Afrikaans',
'sq' => 'Albanian',
'ar-dz' => 'Arabic (Algeria)',
'ar-bh' => 'Arabic (Bahrain)',
'ar-eg' => 'Arabic (Egypt)',
'ar-iq' => 'Arabic (Iraq)',
'ar-jo' => 'Arabic (Jordan)',
'ar-kw' => 'Arabic (Kuwait)',
'ar-lb' => 'Arabic (Lebanon)',
'ar-ly' => 'Arabic (libya)',
'ar-ma' => 'Arabic (Morocco)',
'ar-om' => 'Arabic (Oman)',
'ar-qa' => 'Arabic (Qatar)',
'ar-sa' => 'Arabic (Saudi Arabia)',
'ar-sy' => 'Arabic (Syria)',
'ar-tn' => 'Arabic (Tunisia)',
'ar-ae' => 'Arabic (U.A.E.)',
'ar-ye' => 'Arabic (Yemen)',
'ar' => 'Arabic',
'hy' => 'Armenian',
'as' => 'Assamese',
'az' => 'Azeri',
'eu' => 'Basque',
'be' => 'Belarusian',
'bn' => 'Bengali',
'bg' => 'Bulgarian',
'ca' => 'Catalan',
'zh-cn' => 'Chinese (China)',
'zh-hk' => 'Chinese (Hong Kong SAR)',
'zh-mo' => 'Chinese (Macau SAR)',
'zh-sg' => 'Chinese (Singapore)',
'zh-tw' => 'Chinese (Taiwan)',
'zh' => 'Chinese',
'hr' => 'Croatian',
'cs' => 'Czech',
'da' => 'Danish',
'div' => 'Divehi',
'nl-be' => 'Dutch (Belgium)',
'nl' => 'Dutch (Netherlands)',
'en-au' => 'English (Australia)',
'en-bz' => 'English (Belize)',
'en-ca' => 'English (Canada)',
'en-ie' => 'English (Ireland)',
'en-jm' => 'English (Jamaica)',
'en-nz' => 'English (New Zealand)',
'en-ph' => 'English (Philippines)',
'en-za' => 'English (South Africa)',
'en-tt' => 'English (Trinidad)',
'en-gb' => 'English (United Kingdom)',
'en-us' => 'English (United States)',
'en-zw' => 'English (Zimbabwe)',
'en' => 'English',
'us' => 'English (United States)',
'et' => 'Estonian',
'fo' => 'Faeroese',
'fa' => 'Farsi',
'fi' => 'Finnish',
'fr-be' => 'French (Belgium)',
'fr-ca' => 'French (Canada)',
'fr-lu' => 'French (Luxembourg)',
'fr-mc' => 'French (Monaco)',
'fr-ch' => 'French (Switzerland)',
'fr' => 'French (France)',
'mk' => 'FYRO Macedonian',
'gd' => 'Gaelic',
'ka' => 'Georgian',
'de-at' => 'German (Austria)',
'de-li' => 'German (Liechtenstein)',
'de-lu' => 'German (Luxembourg)',
'de-ch' => 'German (Switzerland)',
'de' => 'German (Germany)',
'el' => 'Greek',
'gu' => 'Gujarati',
'he' => 'Hebrew',
'hi' => 'Hindi',
'hu' => 'Hungarian',
'is' => 'Icelandic',
'id' => 'Indonesian',
'it-ch' => 'Italian (Switzerland)',
'it' => 'Italian (Italy)',
'ja' => 'Japanese',
'kn' => 'Kannada',
'kk' => 'Kazakh',
'kok' => 'Konkani',
'ko' => 'Korean',
'kz' => 'Kyrgyz',
'lv' => 'Latvian',
'lt' => 'Lithuanian',
'ms' => 'Malay',
'ml' => 'Malayalam',
'mt' => 'Maltese',
'mr' => 'Marathi',
'mn' => 'Mongolian (Cyrillic)',
'ne' => 'Nepali (India)',
'nb-no' => 'Norwegian (Bokmal)',
'nn-no' => 'Norwegian (Nynorsk)',
'no' => 'Norwegian (Bokmal)',
'or' => 'Oriya',
'pl' => 'Polish',
'pt-br' => 'Portuguese (Brazil)',
'pt' => 'Portuguese (Portugal)',
'pa' => 'Punjabi',
'rm' => 'Rhaeto-Romanic',
'ro-md' => 'Romanian (Moldova)',
'ro' => 'Romanian',
'ru-md' => 'Russian (Moldova)',
'ru' => 'Russian',
'sa' => 'Sanskrit',
'sr' => 'Serbian',
'sk' => 'Slovak',
'ls' => 'Slovenian',
'sb' => 'Sorbian',
'es-ar' => 'Spanish (Argentina)',
'es-bo' => 'Spanish (Bolivia)',
'es-cl' => 'Spanish (Chile)',
'es-co' => 'Spanish (Colombia)',
'es-cr' => 'Spanish (Costa Rica)',
'es-do' => 'Spanish (Dominican Republic)',
'es-ec' => 'Spanish (Ecuador)',
'es-sv' => 'Spanish (El Salvador)',
'es-gt' => 'Spanish (Guatemala)',
'es-hn' => 'Spanish (Honduras)',
'es-mx' => 'Spanish (Mexico)',
'es-ni' => 'Spanish (Nicaragua)',
'es-pa' => 'Spanish (Panama)',
'es-py' => 'Spanish (Paraguay)',
'es-pe' => 'Spanish (Peru)',
'es-pr' => 'Spanish (Puerto Rico)',
'es-us' => 'Spanish (United States)',
'es-uy' => 'Spanish (Uruguay)',
'es-ve' => 'Spanish (Venezuela)',
'es' => 'Spanish (Traditional Sort)',
'sx' => 'Sutu',
'sw' => 'Swahili',
'sv-fi' => 'Swedish (Finland)',
'sv' => 'Swedish',
'syr' => 'Syriac',
'ta' => 'Tamil',
'tt' => 'Tatar',
'te' => 'Telugu',
'th' => 'Thai',
'ts' => 'Tsonga',
'tn' => 'Tswana',
'tr' => 'Turkish',
'uk' => 'Ukrainian',
'ur' => 'Urdu',
'uz' => 'Uzbek',
'vi' => 'Vietnamese',
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=698172
'xh' => 'Xhosa',
'yi' => 'Yiddish',
'zu' => 'Zulu' );
return $a_languages;
}
?> Note: get_languages will return an array of '','','','' if the server variable is not set.
Anyway, found it very useful, hope you do too. |
01-23-2011, 06:37 AM
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