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iftomkins's avatar
iftomkins
Maven
11 years ago

Get language setting of current node?

Good morning!   How would I get the language setting of the current node?   Here is a screenshot of the language setting in the Node's settings in the Admin area: https://www.dropbox.com/s/1ri15f...
HaidongG's avatar
HaidongG
Lithium Alumni (Retired)

Hi iftomkins, 

 

From your recent posts, it seems that you are building something similar to one of my recent projects: a language selection bar, which allows user to automatically switch to another language by a single click

 

Just to share what I did,

 

1) create an endpoint which can update user's profile language and expose itself as JSON.

<#assign result_result = "error" />
<#assign lang = http.request.parameters.name.get("lang", "")?trim />
<#if user.registered && lang?? >
    <#assign update_lang_setting = rest("/users/self/profiles/name/language/set?value=${lang}") />
    <#if update_lang_setting.@status == 'success'>
        <#assign result_result = "success" />
    </#if>
</#if>
{"response":"${result_result}"}

 2) create a component, which calls that endpoint and refreshes the page when user clicks a particular language tab.

LITHIUM.jQuery.ajax({
            type: "GET",
            url: "/plugins/custom/apac/apac/custom.apac.switch_language_edpt?lang=" + new_lang_code,
            dataType: "json",
            success: function (data) {
                if(data.response == "success")    {
                    window.location.reload();
                } else {
                   .........
                }
            },

 

The output is like 

 

lang1.jpg

lang2.jpg

 

btw: for anonymous user, you has no user profile to update, you may just need to add  to load http://<your current URL>?profile.language=<new language code>

heavenerp's avatar
heavenerp
Leader
11 years ago

Will definitely leverage this. Thanks!

 

These endpoints and macros are areas I've never worked with before.  To everyone that has replied, thanks for the help!

 

Doug

  • heavenerp's avatar
    heavenerp
    Leader
    11 years ago

    It took a bit of tweaking, but I did get it working.  Again, thanks so much for your help!

     

    Inside the custom component I added an onclick element to the Language links of:

     

    <a href="#" onclick="changelanguage('en');">English</a>
<a href="#" onclick="changelanguage('es');">Spanish</a>

     

     

     

    and at the bottom of the custom component added the tweaked script you provided

     

    <script type="text/javascript">
function changelanguage(new_lang_code){
LITHIUM.jQuery.ajax({
                        type: "GET",
                        url: "url_to_endpoint/endpoint_name?lang=" + new_lang_code,
                        dataType: "json",
                        success: function (data) {
                            if(data.response == "success"){
                                window.location.reload();
                            }else{
                               return false;
                            }
                        }
                    });
}
</script>

     

     

    Works great!

     

    Will be live in our community soon.

     

    Doug