Force Language

[Ajeh]

You may need to do the flip for the language to avoid this ...

In theory if you have no direct link to language changes, then there should not be a way to switch ... as DrByte indicated ...

However to make life easier on upgrades etc. it is recommend not deleting english or you will be very very sad on upgrades ...

[tripleTTT]

exist simple solution:

meta_tags.php in EN

// Define REFRESH_ADDRESS
define('REFRESH_ADDRESS', 'http://localhost/zen/index.php?main_page=index&language=cz'); 

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add in template
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<?php if (defined('REFRESH_ADDRESS')) { ?>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1;url=<?php REFRESH_ADDRESS; ?> " />
<?php } //endif REFRESH-ADDRESS ?>

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this force customer in CZ shop, but only on mainpage.
I would like force on the same page.

(customer find product via ex. gooogle. Go on product page. But page is in En lang. without many texts. And metatag redirect to same page in default lang. (CZ lang.) or not only on mainpage in def. lang..)

Its the same function like laguage flags. But i am not able edit code for this case (mean edit for use in metatag ). (low php and mysql skill)

[DrByte]

customer find product via ex. gooogle. Go on product page. But page is in En lang.

The page should not be in english if the customer has not set a language. Doesn't matter if it comes from Google or not.

...unless you have changed the setting for "Admin->Configuration->My Store->Language Selector". It should be set to "Default".

[tripleTTT]

this is alredy set and still is going to happen.

with metatag customer never get lost in translation.

[gjh42]

Have you tried it and it DOES happen? If so, you have a problem that needs to be addressed. If not, listen to DrByte.

[paulm]

I got the same issue I think.

Some products are indexed by google with the "language=en" parameter. I think it started because I have had languages box displayed in the beginning (as far as I can see it only happens with "old" products, and all defaults are set to Dutch, and not to browser language).

I think I can come up with a solution myself, but I found this thread while looking if it already had been done by someone else ;-)

Maybe I will just add a:

if(isset ($_GET['language'])){
$_GET['language'] = 'nl';
}

or:

if(isset ($_GET['language'])){
$_GET['language'] = DEFAULT_LANGUAGE;
}

somewhere as a quick fix?

[paulm]

For now I added this to my init overrides/ folder (1.3.5):

<?php
/**
* initialise language handling
* see {@link http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.p...als#InitSystem wikitutorials} for more details.
*
* @package initSystem
* @copyright Copyright 2003-2005 Zen Cart Development Team
* @copyright Portions Copyright 2003 osCommerce
* @todo ICW(SECURITY) is it worth having a sanitizer for $_GET['language'] ?
* @license http://www.zen-cart.com/license/2_0.txt GNU Public License V2.0
* @version $Id: init_languages.php 2753 2005-12-31 19:17:17Z wilt $
*/
if (!defined('IS_ADMIN_FLAG')) {
die('Illegal Access');
}
if (!isset($_SESSION['language']) || isset($_GET['language'])) {
$lng = new language();
if (isset($_GET['language']) && zen_not_null($_GET['language'])) {
$lng->set_language($_GET['language']);
} else {
if (LANGUAGE_DEFAULT_SELECTOR=='Browser') {
$lng->get_browser_language();
} else {
$lng->set_language(DEFAULT_LANGUAGE);
}
}
$lng->set_language(DEFAULT_LANGUAGE);
$_SESSION['language'] = (zen_not_null($lng->language['directory']) ? $lng->language['directory'] : 'english');
$_SESSION['languages_id'] = (zen_not_null($lng->language['id']) ? $lng->language['id'] : 1);
$_SESSION['languages_code'] = (zen_not_null($lng->language['code']) ? $lng->language['code'] : 'en');
}
?>

The red line is the difference with the default lang init file. Might add a switch later on, and change the red line to:

if(FORCE_DEFAULT_LANGUAGE == 'true'){
$lng->set_language(DEFAULT_LANGUAGE);
}

(or just remove it when I ever need more than one language again)