HOW TO: xml:lang=YOUR LANG de en es se fr it ...

Jensensen · Post by **Jensensen** » Wed 7. Jan 2009, 00:24

You probably noticed that --> config

$phpwcms['default_lang']      = 'ABC';  //default language

is responsible for the xml:lang source code of the page, like for example:

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="ABC" lang="ABC">

But what happens when you have a multilingual site [SEO] running with many different site structure levels for each language (so called 'trees')?

The visitor and any --> search engine will get --> DEFAULT ==> 'ABC'
--> for EVERY PAGE in --> each tree - EVEN for those pages which content ACTUAL was written for example in ES, IT, SE, DK, UK. FR, EN...

hmm, I think this is very unsatisfying, disappointing.

[But did you know that

]
You'll succeed by --> CUSTOM templates that will override --> CONF

Just ADD [this conf-var!

]:

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$phpwcms['DOCTYPE_LANG'] = "whatever_lang";

to
[a custom template

for me THIS was new because THERE never was DOCTYPE_LANG in]

/template/inc_settings/template_default/MYcustom_settings.php

[ http://code.google.com/p/phpwcms/issues/detail?id=147 ]

or frontend_init something

PS: i like en es se NL fr it jes most ...

santscho · Post by **santscho** » Tue 27. Jan 2009, 10:11

Great! Exactly what I need for my multi language site. Thanks a lot.

Heiko H. · Post by **Heiko H.** » Tue 27. Jan 2009, 11:01

WOW!!!
Good work! THX!

Post by **update** » Sun 15. Feb 2009, 23:08

Jensensen wrote:or frontend_init something

Do you have any idea?

Jensensen · Post by **Jensensen** » Wed 18. Feb 2009, 00:51

I'm sorry that not.
I'm sorry for the irritation, also. That was a citation [OG] of the issue #147 thread only - not my idea.

I actually don't have any idea for FE-init scripts in this case. I'd prefer custom templates to use.

Post by **flip-flop** » Wed 18. Feb 2009, 07:13

Mhh, i don´t understand this recurring question.

Put it into e.g. frontend_render:

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$GLOBALS['phpwcms']['DOCTYPE_LANG'] = "en-za";

Result:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-za" lang="en-za">

Post by **update** » Wed 18. Feb 2009, 11:27

OK, soweit klar. Wenn jetzt ein Browser mit der Sprachpräferenz [fr] daherkommt, hat der DOCtype aber auch [en-za] drin stehen, oder? Also müsste der frontend renderer die Browser-lang abfragen -ein switch sozusagen- und dann injizieren....
Ok, this is cleared so far. But a browser with a language preference of [fr] will get injected this [en-za] too. So there is a need for some additional switch.... ask for browser lang preferred and inject this, not that... or something similar

Post by **update** » Wed 18. Feb 2009, 14:42

Ok, if I place a file named inject_doctype_lang.php into frontend_render containing

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<?php
$phpwcms['DOCTYPE_LANG'] = $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'];
?>

I'm getting something like

xml:lang="en-US,en;q=0.7,en-us;q=0.3" lang="en-US,en;q=0.7,en-us;q=0.3"

or

xml:lang="de-DE" lang="de-DE"

So far, so good.... what else?

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