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Multilanguage site with different root domains - El Forum - 04-07-2011
[eluser]Joa[/eluser]
Hi. I'm quite new to CI wonder if anyone can help me with this:
I'm building a site with three languages: english, finnish, swedish. Since we have three different domain names for the language setting I would like to use
domain.com -> english version
domain.fi -> finnish version
domain.se -> swedish version
Hence the preferred method by using uri segment 1 like the "/en/controller/method/argument" approach won't work.
The site suppose to be database driven for contents so I like to set a global variable ($lang) to use for getting the correct language specific fields from the database (ie "title_en", "title_fi" etcetera).
I wonder where to start looking for a solution. Would it be a .htaccess rewrite or a routing thing? Any suggestions?
Multilanguage site with different root domains - El Forum - 04-07-2011
[eluser]wh1tel1te[/eluser]
I do this sort of thing to switch between desktop and mobile versions of my sites.
Put in your index.php:
Code:
<?php
switch($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'])
{
case 'domain.com':
case 'www.domain.com':
// Either
define('LANG', 'en');
// Or
$GLOBALS['lang'] = 'en';
break;
case 'domain.fi':
case 'www.domain.fi':
// Either
define('LANG', 'fi');
// Or
$GLOBALS['lang'] = 'fi';
break;
case 'domain.sw':
case 'www.domain.sw':
// Either
define('LANG', 'sw');
// Or
$GLOBALS['lang'] = 'sw';
break;
}
?>Then you have access to either LANG constant or $GLOBALS['lang'] variable.
Multilanguage site with different root domains - El Forum - 04-07-2011
[eluser]Joa[/eluser]
YESS! Just what I needed, easy as that! Thanks a lot!