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I recently started implementing language options for my website. Here is how it basically works:
if(isset($_GET['lang']))
{
$langr= $_GET['lang'];
$_SESSION['lang'] = $langr;
setcookie('lang', $langr, time() + (3600 * 24 * 30));
}
elseif(isset($_SESSION['lang']))
{
$langr = $_SESSION['lang'];
}
elseif(isset($_COOKIE['lang']))
{
$langr = $_COOKIE['lang'];
}
else
{
$langr = 'en';
}
switch ($langr)
{
case 'en':
$lang_file = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/includes/lang/en.php";
break;
case 'fr':
setlocale (LC_ALL, 'fr_FR.utf8','fra');
$lang_file = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/includes/lang/fr.php";
break;
default:
$lang_file = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/includes/lang/en.php";
}
include_once $lang_file;
It loads the appropriate language file at the top of every page in my website. However, issues starting coming out when using jQuery's UI datepicker. I found a regional settings file for the datepicker online and have created a separate file for it :
///jquery.ui.datepicker-fr.js file
jQuery(function($){
$.datepicker.regional['fr'] = {
closeText: 'Fermer',
prevText: 'Précédent',
nextText: 'Suivant',
currentText: 'Aujourd\'hui',
monthNames: ['janvier', 'février', 'mars', 'avril', 'mai', 'juin',
'juillet', 'août', 'septembre', 'octobre', 'novembre', 'décembre'],
monthNamesShort: ['janv.', 'févr.', 'mars', 'avril', 'mai', 'juin',
'juil.', 'août', 'sept.', 'oct.', 'nov.', 'déc.'],
dayNames: ['dimanche', 'lundi', 'mardi', 'mercredi', 'jeudi', 'vendredi', 'samedi'],
dayNamesShort: ['dim.', 'lun.', 'mar.', 'mer.', 'jeu.', 'ven.', 'sam.'],
dayNamesMin: ['D','L','M','M','J','V','S'],
weekHeader: 'Sem.',
dateFormat: 'dd/mm/yy',
firstDay: 1,
isRTL: false,
showMonthAfterYear: false,
yearSuffix: ''};
$.datepicker.setDefaults($.datepicker.regional['fr']);
});
The issue is I need to dynamically load jquery.ui.datepicker-fr.js whenever a language change is detected so that my datepicker switches to french. What I was thinking is creating a PHP function that I would put in my <head> that would echo out my file, but the problem with that is that not all my web pages are PHP and I don't find this a very effective method. Any other ideas on how to do this?
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You need to put a check in your header.php which will goes like that:
<script type="text/javascript>" src="/js/<?php if($_SESSION['lang'] == "en"){ echo 'datepicker-en.js'}else echo 'datepicker-fr.js'; ?>"></script>
So it will automatically detect the datepicker file according to your language parameter.
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