Thanks - good idea - but how do I force the URL to show the language token like "domain.com/mayapp/en/mycontroller/myfunction"?
On Tuesday, August 27, 2013 1:40:00 PM UTC+2, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > > 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! >> >> >> >> -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
