By ardas on

Hello,

I need to configure my site for several domains each of which must turn the corresponding language on. For instance,
www.site.com - en, www.site.ru - ru, www.site.jp - jp, etc...
All of them will point to the same source code and will have the same database. The only difference is default language.

As I understood, each domain will have corresponding settings.php file. I didn't find the way to change default language from within settings.php file.

Can anybody help with this problem?

Thanks.

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mdixoncm’s picture

mdixoncm commented

I've not used it but it might be worth checking out the internationalisation module

http://drupal.org/project/i18n

failing that, I have done a couple of "hacks" in the past by just changing the global $locale variable as required.

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suit4’s picture

suit4 commented

there are some ways to do this, actually I don't know, if drupal
itself has a it's own way to do this.

First:
Drupal is not absolutely translatable. Depending on your project, there might be some issues, that can only fixed by modifying module code.

But here are some ideas:
1)
did you try i18n_variables in settings.php? (you have to put them in there for yourself)
I don't know, but this might work for setting a default language, but it works for at least for some other vars (http://drupal.org/node/83514)

2)
build a redirector based on the language:

// put this in your template.php

function switch_lang_on_domain() {
    global $domain_lang_defaults;
    // remove port number from host name. if present
    $server_name = str_replace(":" . $_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"], "", $_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"]);
    // pairs of domain and language
    if (isset ($domain_lang_defaults[$server_name]) && $is_front) {
        drupal_goto(i18n_path('', $domain_lang_defaults[$server_name]) . '/');
    }
}

Hint: $is_front should be filled with TRUE or FALSE, I think, drupal sets this automatically, if you are on the front page.
This is to prevent an automatic domain switch on each page reload.

// put this in your page.tpl.php

// do a switch for domains
global $domain_lang_defaults;
$domain_lang_defaults = array(
  'www.site.com' => 'en',
  'www.site.ru' => 'ru',
  'www.site.jp' => 'jp',
);
switch_lang_on_domain();

Go to your frontpage from site.jp. You should end up in site.jp/jp, where you should find the translation of the frontpage.

3)
use mod_rewrite in .htaccess

Anything usefull for you?

alqvimia’s picture

alqvimia commented

Hi,

Checking the code I've find the solution and I hope it could help other people too. (for drupal 5.x)

in the settings.php file (i.e sites/www.site.ru) I put the following code:

$conf['i18n_languages'] = array('site_default'=>'en',
'name'=> array('es'=>'Spanish' , 'ca'=>'Catalan' , 'en'=>'English'),
'rtl'=>array('es'=>'es','ca'=>'ca','en'=>'en'),
'native'=>array('es'=>'Español','ca'=>'Català','en'=>'English'),
'enabled'=>array('es'=>'es','ca'=>'ca','en'=>'en'));

The 'name" array set the languages names
The 'enabled' array set the enabled languages

Finally set default language on the 'site_default' variable in the 'i18n_languages' array.
It's important to build the whole array as it won't work if you don't write it so.

Regards