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Locale chooser based on common browser headers
This is a simple class to detect the locale that the user preffers., (*1)
The easiest way to install this is through composer, inside your composer.json require block add, (*2)
"arosemena/localechooser": "1.0.1"
and then do composer update, otherwise you could grab the class itself and autoload it with the method of your choosing., (*3)
You will need an instance of the LocaleChooser class, the constructor takes 3 parameters, first an array of the available language, ['en', 'es', 'fr'] for example, the second parameter is a string of the default language in case nothing can be matched, the third parameter is the name of the cookie that contains the language that overrides all the normal priority., (*4)
$chooser = new Arosemena\LanguageChooser\LanguageChooser(['en', 'es'], 'en', 'language');
After the class has been instanciated do $chooser->obtain() to get the appropiate locale., (*5)
$chooser = new Arosemena\LanguageChooser\LanguageChooser(['en', 'es', 'fr'], 'es', 'language');
// if the browser says that the user prefers french (fr)
$chooser->obtain(); // returns 'fr'
// if the browser says that the user prefers german (de)
$chooser->obtain(); // returns 'es' because it is the default language and german isn't supported
// if the browser says that the user prefers spanish (es) and sends a cookie named language with the value 'fr'
$chooser->obtain(); // returns 'fr' because the cookie overrides the browser preferred language
The class will read the $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'] variable which is a header sent by most modern browsers and it will be parsed and evaluated against the available languages to determine the most appropiate one., (*6)
Locale chooser based on common browser headers
MIT
language localchooser
Locale chooser based on common browser headers
MIT
language localchooser
Locale chooser based on common browser headers
MIT
language localchooser