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May 16, 2010 at 2:20 am #29042

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So I am using wordpress with a multilingual plugin. In the english and spanish it gives the html tag an attribute of lang.

So if its an english page it would look like this:
<html lang="en">

And if its a spanish page it would look like this:
<html lang="es">

So in my header I want to add a php conditional statement that looks something like this:
<?php if(lang="es") {
echo ‘[english html code]’;
} else {
echo ‘[spanish html code]’;
}

Of course that is wrong but how would I so this correctly? Thanks!

October 12, 2012 at 6:55 am #111727

ryan_whitlie
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I tried searching for this too but there doesn’t seem to be a way to detect the actual website lang attribute, only that of the browser which is no help.

If you’re using the qTranslate plugin, or another one, look into the code and see how they detect the selected language. Might be a cookie or session. Then you will have a starting point

March 27, 2017 at 1:42 am #253196

rubaka
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I found another solution using JavaScript:

var lang = document.documentElement.lang
if (lang == ‘en-US’) {
document.getElementById(“footertext3”).innerHTML = “Here you can find us! We are expecting you!”;
}

Something like this! Will replace text inside specified div. This is for using inside WP Page, if you try to modify header.php you can use this:

—do something—

—do something else–

March 27, 2017 at 1:43 am #253197
rubaka
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```
<?php if(ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE=='en'): ?>
---do something---
<?php elseif(ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE=='it'): ?>
---do something else--
<?php endif; ?>
```
June 30, 2018 at 2:05 pm #273443
Atelierbram
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The WPGlobus plugin changes the url of the second language. So in the OP’s case with the default language being English and the second being Spanish, in the Spanish version of a page or post there would be es somewhere in the url, place depending on the permalink structure. Now in PHP one can take advantage of this like this:
```
// set variables:
 $reqUrl = $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
 $isSpanish = strpos($reqUrl, 'es'); 
```
echo it out in header.php on the html language attribute:

html lang="php if ($isSpanish!==false) echo 'es'; else echo 'en'"
July 2, 2018 at 3:58 am #273547

tivnet
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@Atelierbram

“es” can appear in any part of the URL.

WPGLobus provides a method to get the current language.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39961013/how-to-get-language-using-wp-globus

July 2, 2018 at 11:38 am #273559

Atelierbram
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Cool, I knew about this but thought this method sturdier, for it will still work even if the WPGlobus plugin makes changes in their API. But thanks anyway.

Also PHP strpos looks at all the parts of the url for a match: very usefull.

July 3, 2018 at 12:02 am #273560
Atelierbram
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@tivnet On second thought, echoing out the variable with the WPGLobus Config method is a lot cleaner, so I may opt for that.
```
  $lang = WPGlobus::Config()->language;
  html lang="<?= $lang; ?>"
```
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