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Krzysztof Kucharzyk
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Krzysztof Kucharzyk
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 4,005 Points
Posted by Krzysztof Kucharzyk
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Krzysztof Kucharzyk
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 4,005 Points

Different link url for different website language version

Hey,

I have a website with multi language option and I have my links there to download a files. I'm learning php atm the moment so I wanna try different things.

I would like to know how to write a php code so when I'm on my website (default language is english).

I have a link to download a file - en.pdf with user's manual but when I switch language to japanese I would like this url link to be changed to jp.pdf.

my html is like this:

<ul class="pliki">
<li><a href="/files/en.pdf" title="User's manual">User's manual</a><small> - PDF file</small></li>
<li><a href="/files/jp.pdf" title="User's manual">User's manual</a><small> - PDF file</small></li>
</ul>

I tried to write something like this but it doesn't work:

<?php 

session_start();

    $languages = array('pl','en','es','el','ro','sl');

        if(in_array($_GET['lang'], $languages)) {
            $_SESSION['lang'] = $_GET['lang'];
        }   

define('LANG', in_array($_SESSION['lang'], $languages) ? $_SESSION['lang'] : 'PL');


echo '<ul>';
foreach ($languages as $language) {
    echo '<li>';
    echo '<a href="/files/?lang='.$language.'.pdf">Instrukcja uzytkownika</a>';
    echo '</li>'
}
echo '</ul>';

?>

I would really appreciate for your help.

1 Answer

Hanley Chan
Hanley Chan
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Hanley Chan
Hanley Chan
27,771 Points

Hi,

From your code it looks like you already have the selected language stored in your LANG constant. Could you not output the correct link with this:

echo '<a href="/files/?lang='.LANG.'.pdf">Instrukcja uzytkownika</a>';
Krzysztof Kucharzyk
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Krzysztof Kucharzyk
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Krzysztof Kucharzyk
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Krzysztof Kucharzyk
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 4,005 Points

Yeah, I noticed that but I figured it out a lil bit easier and different way. I just refered to __lang using $_GET and assigned variable to it and assigned variable to 

<a href="/files/$MyVar.pdf" >File</a>

and it worked. I didn't think that I could use __lang for this. But thanks for answer :)