Forum OpenACS Development: Language change in a project

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1: Language change in a project
Posted by Juan Carlos on 06/01/17 06:39 PM
I need to create the option inside my project so the user can change the language of the program from english to spanish, and viceverse, with just a click. What can I do?
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2: Re: Language change in a project (response to 1)
Posted by Antonio Pisano on 06/02/17 12:29 AM
One example of such feature you can find in the /acs-lang/www/index page. If, for instance, you go to https://openacs.org/acs-lang/, there you will have the possibility to switch the preferred locale for you on this website.

Of course your application should have been written with localization in mind, that is, have every UI text as a localized message key (with a proper translation for the languages you want to support).

Hope this helps

Antonio

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3: Re: Language change in a project (response to 1)
Posted by Brian Fenton on 06/02/17 09:05 AM
Lots of good docs here https://openacs.org/doc/i18n-introduction

Let me know if you need more specific advice.

Brian

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4: Re: Language change in a project (response to 1)
Posted by Iuri Sampaio on 06/02/17 03:56 PM
Assuming you've read already those 2 posts above, you can easily find the examples using API lang::user::*

You can add whether a link or a form to pass the desired locale, then run the chunk of code bellow.

if {$locale ne ""} {
lang::user::set_locale $locale

ad_returnredirect [ad_conn url]
ad_script_abort
}

Best wishes,
Iuri