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use this as a gateway to detect a users accepted language and for example redirect him to the right page.

function lixlpixel_get_env_var( ) [ line 2 ]

function lixlpixel_detect_lang( ) [ line 12 ]

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1	<?php
2	function lixlpixel_get_env_var($Var)
3	{
4	if(empty($GLOBALS[$Var]))
5	{
6	$GLOBALS[$Var]=(!empty($GLOBALS['_SERVER'][$Var]))?
7	$GLOBALS['_SERVER'][$Var]:
8	(!empty($GLOBALS['HTTP_SERVER_VARS'][$Var]))?
9	$GLOBALS['HTTP_SERVER_VARS'][$Var]:'';
10	}
11	}
12	function lixlpixel_detect_lang()
13	{
14	// Detect HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE & HTTP_USER_AGENT.
15	lixlpixel_get_env_var('HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE');
16	lixlpixel_get_env_var('HTTP_USER_AGENT');
17	$_AL=strtolower($GLOBALS['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE']);
18	$_UA=strtolower($GLOBALS['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
19	// Try to detect Primary language if several languages are accepted.
20	foreach($GLOBALS['_LANG'] as $K)
21	{
22	if(strpos($_AL, $K)===0)
23	return $K;
24	}
25	// Try to detect any language if not yet detected.
26	foreach($GLOBALS['_LANG'] as $K)
27	{
28	if(strpos($_AL, $K)!==false)
29	return $K;
30	}
31	foreach($GLOBALS['_LANG'] as $K)
32	{
33	if(preg_match("/[[( ]{$K}[;,_-)]/",$_UA))
34	return $K;
35	}
36	// Return default language if language is not yet detected.
37	return $GLOBALS['_DLANG'];
38	}
39	// Define default language.
40	$GLOBALS['_DLANG']='en';
41	// Define all available languages.
42	// WARNING: uncomment all available languages
43	$GLOBALS['_LANG'] = array(
44	'af', // afrikaans.
45	'ar', // arabic.
46	'bg', // bulgarian.
47	'ca', // catalan.
48	'cs', // czech.
49	'da', // danish.
50	'de', // german.
51	'el', // greek.
52	'en', // english.
53	'es', // spanish.
54	'et', // estonian.
55	'fi', // finnish.
56	'fr', // french.
57	'gl', // galician.
58	'he', // hebrew.
59	'hi', // hindi.
60	'hr', // croatian.
61	'hu', // hungarian.
62	'id', // indonesian.
63	'it', // italian.
64	'ja', // japanese.
65	'ko', // korean.
66	'ka', // georgian.
67	'lt', // lithuanian.
68	'lv', // latvian.
69	'ms', // malay.
70	'nl', // dutch.
71	'no', // norwegian.
72	'pl', // polish.
73	'pt', // portuguese.
74	'ro', // romanian.
75	'ru', // russian.
76	'sk', // slovak.
77	'sl', // slovenian.
78	'sq', // albanian.
79	'sr', // serbian.
80	'sv', // swedish.
81	'th', // thai.
82	'tr', // turkish.
83	'uk', // ukrainian.
84	'zh' // chinese.
85	);
86	// Redirect to the correct location.
87	//header('location: http://www.your_site.com/index_'.lixlpixel_detect_lang().'.php'); // Example Implementation
88	echo 'The Language detected is: '.lixlpixel_detect_lang(); // For Demonstration
89	?>

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