How to set WPLANG by browser language

  • I’m developing a bilingual website. So the content is mostly in English and German. That is OK. But some texts like on buttons and messages for the user I don’t want to show in both languages as Next/Weiter or Read More / Weiterlesesen or Submit / Absenden etc.
    The best solution would be, if the browser of the user is set to German WPLANG should set to German otherwise leave the default setting in English.
    I guess it should be only some lines of code to do this – or not? Does anyone already has a solution for this? Or a link to an article?

    Any help appreciated
    Tom

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Developing with WordPress topic
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    Thread Starter Tom

    (@tomybyte)

    Hi Fahim, you didn’t read my post above. I know WPML very well and I’m the owner of a lifetime licence. I could use WPML but that would be overkill. In this case I want a very small and lightweight solution. By the way WPML puts very much data in tables. I have another website using WPML, there is a table with a size bigger than 1 GByte. No – WPML is here absolutely no solution. But thank you for your time to answer.

    • This reply was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by Tom.
    Thread Starter Tom

    (@tomybyte)

    Maybe helpful for someone else too. This little code in my plugins function file does the trick:

    function maybe_set_locale_to_german( $locale ) {
	$l =  t3c_get_user_lang();
	if( $l=='de_DE' ){
		$locale = 'de_DE';
	}
	return $locale;
}
add_filter( 'locale', 'maybe_set_locale_to_german', 1, 1 );

function t3c_get_user_lang(){
    static $set_lang = '';
    
    $server_lang = filter_var( $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING );
    $browserlang = substr($server_lang, 0, 2);
        
    if( $browserlang == "de" ){
        $set_lang = 'de_DE';
    }
   return $set_lang;        
}
    • This reply was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by Tom.

    Thanks so much Tom, for sharing the solution.

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