PHP FUNCTION TO SWITCH LANGUAGE

[MrAlexisX2]

Hi,

What is the PHP function to switch the language of a user only ? I want to make a script if a player is english, forum is in english too else if is in french, forum is too.

[MrAlexisX2]

buuump

[spork985]

You could update the language field in the mybb_users table?

[MrAlexisX2]

I can't because I wan't to change language of guests members too.

I want the same function of : <select name="language" onchange="MyBB.changeLanguage();" style="width: 100%;"> in javascript but in PHP ?

[Destroy666]

There's no function. You could do something similar to this (it sets language if user didn't choose any): https://github.com/Destroy666x/MyBB-Brow...#L55-#L132

[JordanMussi]

You may use the HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE header sent by the user.

Change line 94 in global.php from:

$lang->set_language($mybb->settings['bblanguage']);

to:

// Fallback (board default) language
$chosen_lang = $mybb->settings['bblanguage'];

// Add a new case for each language you have installed in ./inc/languages/
switch(substr($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'], 0, 2)) {
	case 'en':
		$chosen_lang = 'english';
		break;
	case 'fr':
		$chosen_lang = 'french';
		break;
}

$lang->set_language($chosen_lang);

You may want to consider using the Patches plugin so that you can apply the change again when you upgrade your forum.

[Destroy666]

The code above is not fully correct though considering they may be e.g. different en versions, some country codes also have 3 characters. A regex is better: https://github.com/Destroy666x/MyBB-Brow...e.php#L145

[JordanMussi]

The code above is not fully correct though considering they may be e.g. different en versions, some country codes also have 3 characters. A regex is better: https://github.com/Destroy666x/MyBB-Brow...e.php#L145

I completely agree, I was just suggesting a simple method to solve the problem. You could always edit the switch statement to chose how many characters you look at and add cases for each language you support.