By gábor hojtsy on
Change record status: 
Published (View all published change records)
Project: 
Drupal core
Introduced in branch: 
8.x
Issue links: 
https://www.drupal.org/node/1260510
Description: 

You can now load a language by its language code with a dedicated load function.

Drupal 7:

$languages = language_list();
$language = $languages[$langcode];

Drupal 8:

$language = language_load($langcode);

Comments

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guy_schneerson commented

We needed to change the language as part of the checkout processes of a Drupal 7 commerce site

The following code did not work:

  global $language;
  $languages = language_list();
  $new_language = $languages['en-gb'];
  // Assign
  $language = $new_language;

however assigning the properties of $new_language to $language did work:

  global $language;
  $languages = language_list();
  $new_language = $languages['en-gb'];
  // Assign
  $vars = get_object_vars($new_language);
  foreach($vars as $name => $value) {
      $language->$name = $value;
  }

Guy Schneerson
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