FAO: Micha

Question

Please see my post to the multidimensional arrays thread from
several days
ago.
Executive summary: How do I parse out the regionalization of
the visitor's
browser?
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Answer 1

That's much too complicated. This is for a single page, with
a feedback
form. I thought it would be nice to have the form's legend
and opening
sentence in the language being used by the visitor (but a
very simple
subset - either English or Spanish). Can you think of a
better way to do
that?
testing page -->
http://neapco.beyondunreal.com/n_aftermarket-nonUSlocator.php
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"Michael Fesser" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> .oO(Murray *ACE*)
>
>>Please see my post to the multidimensional arrays
thread from several days
>>ago.
>
> Got it.
>
>>Executive summary: How do I parse out the
regionalization of the visitor's
>>browser?
>
> That's difficult.
>
> The informations about the user's language preferences
are sent along
> with the HTTP request in an 'Accept-Language' header. In
PHP you can
> access it with $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE']. Now
many freely
> available scripts suggest to just parse that header
string for the
> language code you're searching for, 'en' for example.
But there's a
> problem with that method.
>
> Have a look at this value, which is sent by my Opera
browser for
> example:
>
> de,en;q=0.9
>
> It not only contains the language codes that my browser
accepts, but
> also an optional "quality" value for every language,
which describes a
> kind of personal preference. The absence of the 'q'
parameter defaults
> to "q=1.0". So the above string means "I accept all
German and English,
> but I prefer German". Just parsing that string for
language codes would
> lead to a wrong result.
>
> So to be correct you would either have to take that into
account and
> develop your own function or drop the idea completely
and let the server
> handle it.
>
> Currently I have just one multi-lingual website (work in
progress),
> where I implement the following idea (it's an Apache
server):
>
> If the user enters the "main" site, e.g.
http://example.com, the server
> performs content negotiation to redirect the user to a
subdomain
> according to his language preferences. This feature is
described at
>
> Content Negotiation
>
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/content-negotiation.html
>
> Currently my subdomains on that site are
>
>
http://de.example.com
>
http://en.example.com
>
http://es.example.com
>
> All point to the same directory on the server, so it's
always the same
> script that will be called. Now this script just has to
check the host
> name ($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']) to get the code of the
requested language
> and react accordingly.
>
> HTH
> Micha