Look how admin does it:

https://github.com/web2py/web2py/blob/master/applications/admin/views/layout.html#L62
https://github.com/web2py/web2py/blob/master/applications/admin/models/0.py#L79


On Tuesday, 27 August 2013 06:00:57 UTC-5, xelomac wrote:
>
>
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm working on a multilingual CMS. Therefore I need to give the site 
> visitor the option to change the content language using a language switcher 
> menu link. My question is about changing content language not about 
> changing surface language (please no T function answers here :-)
>
> So far I did the following: I created a routes.py file inside the web2py 
> directory with the following content:
>
> routers = dict(
>   BASE  = dict(default_application='myapp'),
>   myapp = dict(languages=['en', 'it', 'fr', 'de'], default_language='en'),
> )
>
> I found an older post dealing with this topic (
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/web2py/q2B9mekNCwk/Kn-uxao1aIMJ) 
> and followed this advice:
>
> URL() by default produces absolute scheme-less URLs, like this /a/c/f. 
>> so to link from http://site.com/en/a/c/f to http://site.com/fr/a/c/f, 
>> you prepend URL() call with '/fr', like this: 
>> <a href="/fr{{=URL(a=request.application, c=request.controller, 
>> f=request.function, ...)}}">French</a> 
>
>
>
> This works - but only once. The first time I click the link the 'fr' is 
> prepended and the request.uri_language is changed accordingly. But on the 
> second click on a language link another language token is prepended to the 
> URI which breaks the app. (URL after second click reads like this: 
> domain.com/app/en/fr/controller/function)
>
> By the way: It only works on the first click because initially there is no 
> language token in the URI. But this means there would be pages that can be 
> reached with and without language token which will lead to Google duplicate 
> content problems. So I will have to find a solution that addresses this 
> issue too.
>
> Any help appreciated!
>
>
>
>

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