By wmostrey on

I'm using locale/i18n and I can't seem to find which variable or function returns the currently active language (for example 'en', 'nl', 'fr', ..) Could someone point me in the right direction?

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mdixoncm commented

I think it is in a global var $locale ...

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wmostrey commented

That variable is not even set, so that's not it..

*update*
It's $language ;)

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mdixoncm commented

I think we are at cross purposes :)

The $locale is the user's locale, which is used by the locale module to determine which translation to use (it is a global variable).

The i18n module uses a static variable $i18n_language to hold the current language of the page in - and a function i18n_get_lang() to get and set the static variable.

There isn't a global $language variable, but each node does have a language property associated with it ....

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wmostrey commented

Thanks a lot for the info. It appears there /is/ a $language variable when the url contains the language, for instance example.com/fr then $language is "fr". I don't know if this comes from locale or i18n, but it's there, and only when the url contains the language.

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vacilando commented

True, even in D6, $language->language is populated only when the language code is in the URL! Without it being in the URL, even translated pages show always 'en' (in my case). Why?

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RAWDESK commented

This I8n function returns your current (session) language:
i18n_language_context()->language;
The i18n_get_lang() was not present in my actual i18n installed module version.

If you are looking for a solution without using a variable, you can use i18n_taxonomy_localize_terms() function in case taxonomy terms are the subject for localization.
My case summarized in comment of this thread :
https://www.drupal.org/node/951760#comment-9240793