Forums / Developer / Storing the last language in the browser
Tony Wood
Tuesday 23 November 2004 7:10:41 am
Hi,
Has anyone delevoped a mechanism in eZ to store the last viewed language on a site?
The senerio for use would be a anonymous spanish visitors sets spanish as his language and whenver he comes back to the site then the language would default to spanish.
Any thoughts anyone?
tony
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Łukasz Serwatka
Tuesday 23 November 2004 7:21:32 am
You can use JavaScript with cookies Cookie: Name1=value1; Name2=value2; Check the cookie and redirct user to right language
function createCookie(name,value,days) { if (days) { var date = new Date(); date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days*24*60*60*1000)); var expires = "; expires="+date.toGMTString(); } else var expires = ""; document.cookie = name+"="+value+expires+"; path=/"; } function readCookie(name) { var nameEQ = name + "="; var ca = document.cookie.split(';'); for(var i=0;i < ca.length;i++) { var c = ca[i]; while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c = c.substring(1,c.length); if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) == 0) return c.substring(nameEQ.length,c.length); } return null; } function eraseCookie(name) { createCookie(name,"",-1); }
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Tuesday 23 November 2004 7:34:21 am
Thanks Luke. Wouldn't it be nice to have this in eZ by default? then we would not have to do a js check on very page load...
Kåre Køhler Høvik
Tuesday 23 November 2004 8:02:18 am
Try using the build in preferences : http://ez.no/ez_publish/documentation/incoming/user_preferences
Kåre Høvik
Tuesday 23 November 2004 8:13:17 am
Thanks Kåre
I would love to but these users are anonymous :(
Tuesday 23 November 2004 8:22:01 am
From the documentation of the functionality : <i>If the user is not logged in the preferences is stored in sesssion.</i>
So it should work for anonymous users.
Tuesday 23 November 2004 8:35:45 am
That is a really good point :) Thanks
Can you give me a hint as to the code location and what sort of code would you use to inact the language change.
Tuesday 23 November 2004 10:26:42 am
How do you seperate between the language versions ?
Tuesday 23 November 2004 10:44:07 am
Currently we use URL so /en english /fr French etc.