Category: PHP

Detect languages with PHP

05/05/2021 Nicolas Baptista PHP 0 Comments

If you have a standard website with CMS such Drupal, WordPress, phpBB… You may want to detect language in some pages.
To do so, you can use the following PHP function :

$_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE']

You should create an array of all the accepted languages, for example let’s say it’s French, English, Portuguese and Russian :

$acceptLang = ['fr', 'en', 'pt', 'ru'];

Then, you can set a default language, usually English the universal language, and detect if it’s in the array. Which will give:

$lang = substr($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'], 0, 2);
$acceptLang = ['fr', 'en', 'pt', 'ru'];
$lang = in_array($lang, $acceptLang) ? $lang : 'en';

Finally, in your code, you can use the value of the $lang variable to change the value of your text according the the selected language.

Inline function javascript to put cookies without JQuery

04/05/2021 Nicolas Baptista Javascript, PHP 0 Comments

If you are using basic pages such landing pages, is it possible that you still use basic languages such HTML/CSS/Javascript.
Here is an example of putting cookies and a log of the cookies with an inline function:

<a style="cursor: pointer;" onclick='(function() {
  document.cookie = "cookie=value"; 
  console.log( "cookies:", document.cookie ); 
})()'>
  Click Me 
</a>

Because we are not using href but onlick, I added the cursor style of pointer so the user can know he can click.

Nicolas BAPTISTA