PHP "hello" in different languages ???

[j4mes_bond25]

I've been trying to display a simple & short message in viewer's own language for which I'm using the following script, right at the top of their screen i.e. just above the banner (in my website on: members.lycos.co.uk/darsh25/ .................. select "contact.php"

Although, in my browser, this script identifies that my browser being set to "English" & hence displays "Hello", as it can be seen from:

[code=php:0]<?php

function lixlpixel_get_env_var($Var)
{
if(empty($GLOBALS[$Var]))
{
$GLOBALS[$Var]=(!empty($GLOBALS['_SERVER'][$Var]))?
$GLOBALS['_SERVER'][$Var] : (!empty($GLOBALS['HTTP_SERVER_VARS'][$Var])) ? $GLOBALS['HTTP_SERVER_VARS'][$Var]:'';
}
}

function lixlpixel_detect_lang()
{
// Detect HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE & HTTP_USER_AGENT.
lixlpixel_get_env_var('HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE');
lixlpixel_get_env_var('HTTP_USER_AGENT');

$_AL=strtolower($GLOBALS['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE']);
$_UA=strtolower($GLOBALS['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);

// Try to detect Primary language if several languages are accepted.
foreach($GLOBALS['_LANG'] as $K)
{
if(strpos($_AL, $K)===0)
return $K;
}

// Try to detect any language if not yet detected.
foreach($GLOBALS['_LANG'] as $K)
{
if(strpos($_AL, $K)!==false)
return $K;
}
foreach($GLOBALS['_LANG'] as $K)
{
if(preg_match("/[\[\( ]{$K}[;,_\-\)]/",$_UA))
return $K;
}

// Return default language if language is not yet detected.
return $GLOBALS['_DLANG'];
}

// Define default language.
$GLOBALS['_DLANG']='en';

// Define all available languages.
// WARNING: uncomment all available languages

$GLOBALS['_LANG'] = array(
'af', // afrikaans.
'ar', // arabic.
'bg', // bulgarian.
'ca', // catalan.
'cs', // czech.
'da', // danish.
'de', // german.
'el', // greek.
'en', // english.
'es', // spanish.
'et', // estonian.
'fi', // finnish.
'fr', // french.
'gl', // galician.
'he', // hebrew.
'hi', // hindi.
'hr', // croatian.
'hu', // hungarian.
'id', // indonesian.
'it', // italian.
'ja', // japanese.
'ko', // korean.
'ka', // georgian.
'lt', // lithuanian.
'lv', // latvian.
'ms', // malay.
'nl', // dutch.
'no', // norwegian.
'pl', // polish.
'pt', // portuguese.
'ro', // romanian.
'ru', // russian.
'sk', // slovak.
'sl', // slovenian.
'sq', // albanian.
'sr', // serbian.
'sv', // swedish.
'th', // thai.
'tr', // turkish.
'uk', // ukrainian.
'zh' // chinese.
);

// Redirect to the correct location.

//header('location: [a href=\"http://www.your_site.com/index_'.lixlpixel_detect_lang().'.php');\" target=\"_blank\"]http://www.your_site.com/index_'.lixlp...#39;.php');[/a] // Example Implementation

if ($GLOBALS['_LANG'] = 'en') {
echo '<span class="colorTextRed">"Hello"';
}
else if ($GLOBALS['_LANG'] = 'fr') {
echo '<span class="colorTextRed">"Bonjour"';
}
else {
echo '<span class="colorTextRed">"Hello"';
}

//echo '<span class="colorTextRed">The Language detected is: '.lixlpixel_detect_lang(); // For Demonstration
?>
[/code]

I managed to get this script from somewhere over the Internet, however, I added "if.....else" right at the end, since I want this script identify the browser language (or something like that) & then based on the language identified, I wish to simply display the equivalent of "Hello" in user's own language.

I tried changing my browser's language to French, in order to TEST this script as if it displays "Bonjour" but that didn't work.

Could anyone around help me ???

[poirot]

Try this:

[code]<?php

function getLang() {
   $pref=array();
   foreach(split(',', $_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"]) as $lang) {
       if (preg_match('/^([a-z]+).*?(?:;q=([0-9.]+))?/i', $lang.';q=1.0', $split)) {
           $pref[]=strtolower($split[1]);
       }
   }
   ksort($pref);
   return $pref;
}

$lang = getLang();

switch ($lang[0]) {

case 'fr':
   echo 'Bonjour';
   break;

case 'de':
   echo 'Hallo';
   break;

case 'es':
   echo 'Hola';
   break;
  
default:
   echo 'Hello';
   break;

}

?>[/code]

[aebstract]

I don't think what you said would work though, poirot. I mean for hello yes, and if thats all he wants it will.. but if he wants it to be more advanced, like eventually translating his whole website depending on language?

[poirot]

[!--quoteo(post=384988:date=Jun 17 2006, 08:01 AM:name=aebstract)--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(aebstract @ Jun 17 2006, 08:01 AM) [snapback]384988[/snapback][/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--]
I don't think what you said would work though, poirot. I mean for hello yes, and if thats all he wants it will.. but if he wants it to be more advanced, like eventually translating his whole website depending on language?
[/quote]
No problem.

getLang() will return an array with the browser's languages, then he or she can use that and display different content based on them if he or she wants to.

But I think he needs that for greetings only... Besides, if he needs to translate the whole site; sure this is a start only - PHP can't translate the whole thing.