Set user language depending on country code?

Hi Jordi,

may-be deep in our wish list this request is still recorded? Many German user write to me contact mails in English. This is showing me that they were not aware that our homepage can be switched to German.

Is it much work to recognize the country, where a user is located? And switch the language of our homepage accordingly to his (country) language?

There are countries like Switzerland, having several languages. So may-be instead of country code the language of the browser or OS would work better?

It would be important for DACH area, I am sure. Thank you.

Ralf

Hi all,
you can detect the language of the browse in many ways.

If your provider allow, use this script and find the language of the user, you can add this to https://www.labdoo.org/de

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A second script I used to find out more from the incomming website I have attached it for you.

If you use PHP use this script:

/**
* Detect Browser Language
*/
function getPreferredLanguage(){

$acceptedLanguages = @explode(',', $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE']);
$preferredLanguage = null;
$maxWeight = 0.0;

foreach((array)$acceptedLanguages as $acceptedLanguage){

$weight = (float)@substr(explode(';', $acceptedLanguage)[1], 2);
if(!$weight){$weight = 1.0;}

if($weight > $maxWeight){
$preferredLanguage = substr($acceptedLanguage, 0, 2);
$maxWeight = $weight;
}
}

return $preferredLanguage;
}