By Meni-1 on

Hello.
Anyone ever tried displaying different themes for different languages? My case is extremely frustrating since one language is LTR and the other is RTL. All I want to do is simply switch to a different theme when selecting a certain language.

Thanks for your help.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

Hello Meni,

I think this is a interesting question so I gave it a try. As always there is no right or wrong no golden way to solve this.

So one solution might be to wrap the print $styles code of your page.tpl.php head with a if block. Based on a PHP super global called HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE you can detect the browser language an change the theme/style accordingly.

HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE will output something like this: "de-de,en-us;q=0.7,en;q=0.3". So you have to explode it into array. In this very simple version I check only the first array element $langcodes[0].

$langcodes = strtolower( $_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"] );
$langcodes = explode( ",", $langcodes );

if ($langcodes[0] == "ar" ) { // testing for basic arabic
  print $styles; // alternative styles for RTL
} else { 
  print $styles; // default styles for LTR
};

There a some scripts out there that will help you furhter finetune your detection: http://techpatterns.com/downloads/php_language_detection.php

With best regards

Mike

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Meni-1 commented

Thanks for the reply Mike.

I had something a bit more simple in mind. But my lack of knowledge in Drupal is what leads me to ask...

I am usging the i18n module and I LOVE it. All I need is one simple "if" that will check if I am currently viewing the LTR language or the RTL one.

Then - according to the "if" i will select the theme.
Where exactly would I find the theme selection procedure in the Drupal code?

I don't mind hardcoding the theme selection in PHP and losing the ability to control it through the admin panel.

Any ideas?

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Meni-1 commented

anyone?