Multi language site - php assisted page redirects

[grahambayne]

Hello all,

 

Sorry to join and ask a question immediately. I have just been asked to help out adding some new languages to a website. There is some php working to help the redirects on the pages. I have attached a snippet below and the php file. Currently the only pages it allows you to change to are italian (from the English pages)

 

I am sure this is really simple but I am having trouble getting my head around it and adding two new language directories. I could replace everything with standard HTML links but the php is obviously a better way to do it and it is about time I learnt it.

 

Any help or pointers as to what is happening here would be massively appreciated.

 

Thanks

 

 

Graham

 

 

<a href="transporter.php?l=it/index.html" id="view_it"><img src="images/flag_it.jpg" alt="Site in Italian" title="Site in Italian" /></a>

 

or

 

<a href="../transporter.php?l=index.html" id="view_uk"><img src="../images/flag_uk.jpg" alt="Site in English" title="Site in English" /></a>

 

transporter.php

[grahambayne]

I have added the php code below as I noticed no one had looked at the file. I just wondered if it was better to post it in case that was the way I should have posted it originally.

 

Any help would be really appreciated, again sorry for jumping straight in with a question. I have ordered O'Reilly PHP so with a little luck I will be able to answer this myself in a few weeks.

 

Thanks

 

Graham

 

<?php

 

/*

Because IE doesn't support HTTP_REFERER we have to use ugly GET strings

 

$ref = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];

$ref_parts = explode('/', $ref);

$page = $ref_parts[count($ref_parts) - 1];

$dir = $ref_parts[count($ref_parts) - 2];

 

 

if($dir == 'it'){

header("location:" . $page);

exit();

} else{

header("location:it/" . $page);

exit();

}

 

*/

 

 

if(isset($_GET['l']) && !empty($_GET['l'])){

header("location:" . trim($_GET['l']));

exit();

}

 

 

 

 

?>

[jazzman1]

I'm using sessions for one my project - http://www.stdimitar.org

 

It works very well.

 

 

bulgarian.php

 

<?php

session_start();
$_SESSION['lang'] = null;

header('Location:stdimitar/');

exit;

?>

 

english.php

 

<?php

session_start();

$_SESSION['lang'] = 'en';

header('Location:stdimitar/');

exit;

?>

 

index.php (controller)

 

$lang = ($_SESSION['lang'] == 'en') ? 'en' : null;

 

That's all and very simple