[Zope] language tracking (again)

Mon, 12 Mar 2001 23:00:13 +0100

Hi Pattreeya,

any good reason why not using the accept-language: header from
the browser?

Regards
Tino

Pattreeya Tanisaro wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I  wonder what should I do if  I want to display the menu with the defaut is
> deusch and when the user clicks
> 'english' the menu_left and menu_header swich to english. I have tried with
> this but it did not work  : ~( The code is below.
> 
> my standard_html_header :
> 
> <html>
> <dtml-if expr="lang=='en'">
>  <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('LANG', 'en')">
> <dtml-else>
>  <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('LANG', 'de')">
> </dtml-if>
> <head>
> ....
> </head>
> <body>
> <dtml-if expr="lang=='en'">
>   menu is english.
> <dtml-else>
>  menu is deutsch
> </dtml-if>
> 
> #call menu_left
> <dtml-var menu_left>
> 
> Inside menu_left, i wrote :
> 
> <dtml-if expr="lang=='en'">
>   <a href="<dtml-var homeUrl>index_html?lang=de">Deutsch</a>
>   English English English...
> <dtml-else>
>  <a href="<dtml-var homeUrl>index_e_html?lang=en">English</a>
>   Deutsch deutsch...
> </dtml-if>
> 
> my problem was i cannot switch to english ...but if i used en/de as boolean
> flag, it was fine. (But i guessed that did not make sense...?) I don't
> understand when I should put '-'(single quote) or ignore it. I saw from some
> examples that they used '-' to string within 'expr='.
>          And i wonder if I should put <dtml-call REQUEST.set ('LANG', 'en')
> or
> <dtml-call RESPONSE.setCookie(LANG, en) > to keep tracking language.
> Some of us suggest using session but mm..it seems too difficult for a
> beginner, I think.?
> 
> 
>                             Thank you in advance for any suggestion.
> 
> 
>                                                 Pattreeya.
> 
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