I am going to implement the multi-language support for the website using php
The default language is chinese
I have selected en as british English one.
the webpage link is set as www.abc.com/index.php?lang=en
When it comes to selecting the other menu items,
the query string ?lang=en is gone and resume to chinese language
Would you please tell me how to pass the 'en' and ?lang= to other menu so as to maintain the selection of language desired through the browsing ?
The below is my code
<html>
<body>...
<div id="languages">
<?php $string = basename(__FILE__); ?>
<?php echo "<a href=".$string.'?lang=en >'; $_SESSION['lang']= 'en'; ?><img src="images/en.png" /></a>
<?php echo "<a href=".$string.'?lang=hk >'; $_SESSION['lang']= 'hk'; ?><img src="images/hk.png" /></a>
<?php echo "<a href=".$string.'?lang=cn >'; $_SESSION['lang']= 'cn'; ?><img src="images/cn.png" /></a>
</div>
...
<div class="navigation">
<div id="smoothmenu1" class="ddsmoothmenu">
<ul>
<li><a href="index.php"><?php echo $lang['MENU_HOME']; ?></a></li>
<!--<li><a href="#">About Club</a></li>-->
<li><a href="news.php"><?php echo $lang['MENU_NEWS']; ?> </a></li>
<li><a href="gallery.php"><?php echo $lang['MENU_GALLERY']; ?></a></li>
<!--<li><a href="reservation.php">Make Reservation</a></li>-->
<li><a href="contact.php"><?php echo $lang['MENU_CONTACTS']; ?></a></li>
<!--<li class="dropdown"><a href="#">Pages</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="index.php">Home</a> </li>
<li><a href="news.php">News</a></li>
<li><a href="blog.php">Blog</a></li>
<li><a href="blogpost.php">Blog Post</a></li>
<li><a href="gallery.php">Gallery</a></li>
<li><a href="reservation.php">Reservation</a></li>
<li class="nbbdr"><a href="contact.php">Contact Us </a></li>
</ul>
</li>-->
</ul>
</div>
</div>
This fragment of code:
<?php $string = basename(__FILE__); ?>
<?php echo "<a href=".$string.'?lang=en >'; $_SESSION['lang']= 'en'; ?><img src="images/en.png" /></a>
<?php echo "<a href=".$string.'?lang=hk >'; $_SESSION['lang']= 'hk'; ?><img src="images/hk.png" /></a>
<?php echo "<a href=".$string.'?lang=cn >'; $_SESSION['lang']= 'cn'; ?><img src="images/cn.png" /></a>
Will always set your $_SESSION['lang'] to cn value, not only when you click certain anchor. Instead you should change it to:
<?php $string = basename(__FILE__); ?>
<a href="<?php echo $string; ?>?lang=en"><img src="images/en.png" /></a>
<a href="<?php echo $string; ?>?lang=hk"><img src="images/hk.png" /></a>
<a href="<?php echo $string; ?>?lang=cn"><img src="images/cn.png" /></a>
And also at the beginning of the file you should add:
<?php
if(!isset($_SESSION['lang']))
$_SESSION['lang'] = 'cn'; // Sets default language to 'cn'
if(isset($_GET['lang']) && in_array($_GET['lang'], array('en', 'hk', 'cn')))
$_SESSION['lang'] = $_GET['lang']; // Sets language based on URL
?>
Don't forget to add session_start() at the beginning, before previously mentioned block of code aswell, if you don't have it yet.
From now on, if you won't have ?lang=... in your URL, you will have your last lang set in $_SESSION['lang'].
To change links in the other menu (<li><a href="index.php"><?php echo $lang['MENU_HOME']; ?></a></li> and so on), you should change their href's from:
<li><a href="filename.php"><?php echo $lang['MENU_HOME']; ?></a></li>
To:
<li><a href="filename.php?lang=<?php echo $_SESSION['lang']; ?>"><?php echo $lang['MENU_HOME']; ?></a></li>