Do not show a link to the current language D6

Frank,

I have seen your many posts on Internationaisation. I am a Newbie struggling with a presentation problem - how to turn the Language Switcher Block into a drop down list which, preferably, can be added to a menu or , remain as a block. I'm fairly sure your code snippets here provide the answer ! .. but although although I've figured out the basis of theme CSS in v6 and how to make changes, I cannot see what to do with / or where to put the code snippet ! I have been searching and searching .... could I trouble you to provide a quick explanation please...

Thanks

(by way of background I am running the latest release, have chosen 'path prefix with language fallback' for negotiation, will not be using language icons, expect to have 3 languages to begin and more later ..)

15/05
Just to add my thanks, to GN as well, for the posts below in response to my query.

Just the ticket, thanks very much. May I point out that the php filter module must be enabled so as to permit the php input format for blocks.

Hm, for some reason it still shows the language name after language is switched?

See also http://drupal.org/node/261059#comment-965314

Added to the handbook, http://drupal.org/node/313813

How do I get in the choice of language through block "switch language" URL type "http://example.com/ru/node/" looks like "http://example.com/ru/"?

thanks!you did it

That's a different question.

The only issue I have with this is that when on the front page, it links to the url of the page I'm using for the front.

For example, I created a page called "home" and that's the one I put into the /admin/settings/site-information "Default front page".

The problem is that when I'm at the roo of my site i.e. example.com or example.com/fr the switcher links to example.com/home and example.com/fr/home and not just example.com and example.com/fr as it is when I click on the logo for example.

Can anyone help?

Thanks!

Resolved my problem with global redirect module.

the same situation like theprince: is it possible to solve this without "global redirect"?

thanks and greetings momper

I have a same task that BenK2.
I need to make language switcher as drop-down menu.
I totally new in site construction. I'm spent more one week to learn HTML, CSS, and now I start to learn PHP. But I still don't know how to get it.
I tried Frank code with CSS modification as told GN. No good success.
I tried code from here - http://drupal.org/node/261059#comment-1032902 and still don't have what I want.

Could anybody advice me how to get language switcher as drop-down menu on D6?

Thanks.

I would also find it very useful if this were made into a drop-down menu.

Can anyone advise how this could be made into a dropdown menu?

based on http://drupal.org/node/261059#comment-1032902 snippet, i made some changes, and put following code into page.tpl.php:

        <div id="language-select-form">
        <form  action="" method="post">
        <select id="language-select-list" onchange="document.location.href=this.options[this.selectedIndex].value;">
        <?php
             $languages = language_list('enabled');
             $current = i18n_get_lang();
             $path = drupal_get_normal_path($_GET['q']);
             $paths = array();
             $paths = translation_path_get_translations($path);
             foreach ($languages[1] as $language) {
                 if (preg_match('/^node/',drupal_get_normal_path($_GET['q']))) {
                    $path = drupal_get_path_alias($paths[$language->language], $language->language);
                  }
              $path = "/" . $language->language . "/" . $path;
        ?>
        <option value="<?php print $path ?>"<?php if ($language->language === $current) print ' selected="selected"'?>><?php print $language->native ?></option>
        <?php } ?>
        </select>
        </form>
        </div>

rgds,

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So sorry folks, my snippets from #25 didn't handle non-node pages (e.g. views page) well.
With my limited php knowledge, i modified the code as below:

        <div id="language-select-form">
        <form action="" method="post">
        <div>
        <select id="language-select-list" onchange="document.location.href=this.options[this.selectedIndex].value;">
        <?php
                $languages = language_list('enabled');                        //get enabled languages
                $current = i18n_get_lang();                                   //get current language
                $path1 = drupal_get_normal_path($_GET['q']);                  //get normal path from q
                $paths = array();
                $path1 = preg_replace('/^' . $current . '/', "", $path1);      //delete language suffix if any, e.g.: /en/xxx/yyy -> xxx/yyy 
                $paths = translation_path_get_translations($path1);            //get translation paths
                foreach ($languages[1] as $language) {
                        if (preg_match('/^node/', $path1)) {
                          $path = drupal_get_path_alias($paths[$language->language], $language->language); //get path alias for transl. path
                        } else {
                          $path = $path1;                                      //for non-node pages
                        }
                $path = "/" . $language->language . "/" . $path;
        ?>
        <option value="<?php print $path ?>"<?php if ($language->language === $current) print ' selected="selected"'?>><?php print $language->native ?></option>
        <?php } ?>
        </select>
        </div>
        </form>
        </div>

rgds,

I'll start by apologising, but could someone please help.

I have chased this issue from thread to thread for many hours. I have also looked in all my CSS files to try to figure it myself, but I'm totally lost and due to my own admitted inabilities I'm completely stumped on something I assume is simple. Any help VERY much appreciated.

I have created a block and the snippet is working for me, now all I need to do is change the flag icons from vertical to horizontal alignment and get rid of the bullets. I think that I am supposed to put something (is it a 'class'?) between the middle brackets after the 'array' in the last line... 'echo theme('links', $links, array(?));'

If it isn't too much trouble or a silly question, could someone please explain (simply) where/what I need to change or add to my existing CSS file(s), or do I need to create a new CSS file and in either case what is the code I need to add/modify/create and then what I would actually put between the array brackets?

If relevant, I'm using the latest D6 with the Simply Modern theme and I'm putting the flag icons in either the header or a sidebar.

Many thanks for any help.

Very many thanks and credit to forum member Bruce Pearson who resolved this problem for me.

@Josie_h - can you please share what you had to do to resolve the problem? Many thanks

If you want the flag icons to be shown horizontally then change:

echo theme('links', $links, array());

to:

echo theme('links', $links, array('class' => 'links inline'));

How can I output standard links like "Your Settings" or "Logout" correctly in my theme? E.g.:
- When on English language: Output: "Your Settings", Links to: /user/id/edit
- When on German language: Output: "Deine Einstellungen", Links to: /de/user/id/edit

My current code is as follows, but a) it does not translate "Your Settings" into the correct language (same for "Logout" and other standard links) and b) it always redirects to /user/id/edit, instead of /language-code/user/id/edit:

  // this is copy&paste from locale_block in locale.module
  $languages = language_list('enabled');
  $current = i18n_get_lang();
  $links = array();
...
  array_push($links, array(
        'href'       => 'user/'.$user->uid.'/edit',
		'title'      => t('Your Settings'),
        'language'   => $current,
      ), array(
	    'href'       => 'logout',
		'title'      => t('Logout'),
        'language'   => $current,
      ));

where should I put the code posted on #6 ?
Directly on page.tpl.php ? or paste in a new block and assign to a region. ?

An alternate language switcher block would be welcomed for this module.

Hello! I bought theme and can not solve the problem simply CSS rule display: none for a.active, although Garland theme that works. Been looking on the internet solution to this problem and as a result I found this snippet (# 6). Good for me, that does not show link (box) for the current language, but not when switching to the current language, it would be better to show a link to the language before, and, accordingly, when it is clicked a link was inversely proportional to the current language. I'm not good at PHP, but a little versed in it and looking at the code seen that somewhere near the truth, but could not find her. If anyone knows how to change this snippet (# 6) I would be very grateful if he would rather brash to share ideas. Always waiting for an answer, because It is very important to get an answer as soon as possible. Thank you very much.