Comments on: Language Picker Plugin Version .9

By: bering

bering — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 19:00:52 +0000

Hi, I’ve tried installing the plugin, but as soon as I activate it I get the following error:

parse error, unexpected ‘}’ in /customers/bering-express.dk/bering-express.dk/httpd.www/weblog/wp-content/plugins/lang_picker.php on line 112

What to do?

By: Gavin

Gavin — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 04:42:56 +0000

I’ve sucessfully installed lang_picker and it works well except for the interaction with the tag. Putting two in messes up the html, but only putting one in (in the default language section) leaves the other language version without a means to jump. Any comments or suggestions for how I could try and tackle this? Thanks!

By: Esther

Esther — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 23:13:35 +0000

Jason, I wasn’t using the plugin in my page. I was using it for a page I developed using wordpress. I ended up turning off the plugin. I wasn’t using it after all and I set back the language in the wp-l10n file, then it worked again.
But thanks anyway for taking the time.

By: el_bolo

el_bolo — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 19:16:30 +0000

Great plugin
I have a problem, the translatios work for the main page, but if i choose to view a post in a given translation then it shows it in the default language set in the plugin code.
Default lang is spanish, if i see the main site in english: http://elbolo.lacucalbina.org/blog/?lp_lang_view=en
then it works, but if i want to see any post in english for example:
http://elbolo.lacucalbina.org/blog/index.php?p=5?lp_lang_view=en
it shows it in the default language (spanish), not in the lang that it should!
What have i done wrong?

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 17:15:56 +0000

Esther: I’m not seeing it at your site right now. Did it happen after clicking a link to view an entry in English? If so, clicking a link to view an entry in Spanish would set it back to Spanish.

By: Esther

Esther — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:16:10 +0000

Hi Jason, I’m using your plugin for one of my websites and it’s great.
However I have a problem now with the language in some parts of the site and I’m not sure if this could be the plugin or something I changed.
The admin is all in English instead of the main language I have set in the plugin which is Spanish. The weird thing is that the Plugin section is in Spanish. The archive months are in English as well.
Have you seen a problem like this before? Could it have anything to do with the plugin?
Thanks

By: Nicolas Delsaux

Nicolas Delsaux — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:32:53 +0000

Hi, I’ve installed our wonderful switcher on my blog. But, unfortunatly, there is something that bothers me : I often include quotes, or code fragment, in my blog entries. And I’ve not found any other way to use them but to include them in both default and language specific version.
As an example, suppose I write the following entry

an image :

une image :

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 18:32:54 +0000

That is a good idea, Przemek.

Unfortunately, I don’t think I’m going to continue developing this plugin until 1.3 comes out, and even then it will likely take a very different form. If I do take it a different direction, however, I’ll be sure to include a way to upgrade from the current format.

By: Przemek Anuszek

Przemek Anuszek — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 14:52:49 +0000

And maybe a useful thing: instead a line :
$default_lang = 'en';
I put the lines below to autmatically detect accepted language of visitor:
$language = getenv("HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"); $pattern = '/^(.{2})[,|-](.*)/i'; preg_match($pattern, $language, $match); if ($match[1] == 'pl') $default_lang = 'pl'; else $default_lang = 'en';
The code is simple, probably might be enhanced, but works nice

By: Przemek

Przemek — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 11:52:29 +0000

I also had the problem with “headers already sent” warnings… I checked the plugin source, and at the end of the file ( ?> ) I had white space after the “?>”.
Please check, maybe thats the problem ?
No new line shall not occur after this also.
Great plugin, thanks !

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 17:29:44 +0000

The problem had been that RSS feeds ended up showing tags without choosing a language. Looks like RSS content is correctly filtered now.

I’d love to find the time to update this plugin. Maybe after 1.3 is released. Seems silly to do any work before that.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 12:49:32 +0000

I managed to translate the titles by simply adding the following line to the plugin code:
add_filter('the_title', 'lang_picker',1);
and then using the tags as for normal text…
This was using Wordpress 1.2 Mingus, BTW.

Hope this helps somebody

By: Hans

Hans — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 04:16:45 +0000

Sorry (you can delete the other comments), this time some more feedback. There are two things that I am struggling with:
1. language picker does not work together with the tags. When I have a long article in two languages and I want to split both of them into an introduction I am placing two tags in the text. This does not work properly – the alternative language will not show properly.
2. In the category screen (overview of articles) the Language Switch does not switch the language of the category view (…./index.php?cat=3&lp_lang_view=en) but takes the oldest article and translates that.

Especially the incompatibility with the tag makes it quite difficult to use properly.

By: Hans

Hans — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 07:23:41 +0000

Hmmm, strange, the problem seem to have solved itself…? Similar to Aletheia I messed around and now suddenly the errors do not appear anymore.
May be the settings in the heading of lang_picker.php -> set both on FALSE?
Deleted all my cookies to be sure…
Anyhow, let’s see how it holds. I am happy with it!

By: Hans

Hans — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 05:58:45 +0000

Implemented language_picker despite of the errors with posting in the admin section. It turns out to give also errors when someone wants to post a comment. After clicking “Say It” the following appears:

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/hansguid/public_html/wp-content/plugins/lang_picker.php:164) in /home/hansguid/public_html/wp-comments-post.php on line 89

Please delete these comments, but it seems the only way to get a tip how to solve this.

Check http://www.hansguido.nl when you want to see it happening.

By: Hans

Hans — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 14:49:18 +0000

The new message still seems to get saved. When editing a post and saving it the error appears in another line:

By: Hans

Hans — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 14:44:09 +0000

I have tried to install this plugin twice. Each time I get an error when I want to save the new post in the admin section. The following error is displayed:

Any idea what is going wrong? Would really like to use the plugin…

By: Nortis

Nortis — Sun, 25 Jul 2004 13:59:46 +0000

I fixed the problem with correcting line 113 and 121 in wp-content/plugins/lang_picker.php. I replaced the “…a href=’”.$link.”?lp_lang_view=$lang…” with “…a href=’”.$link.”&lp_lang_view=$lang…” it seemes to work fine now.

By: Nortis

Nortis — Sat, 24 Jul 2004 20:27:41 +0000

I have sucsessfully integrated the lovely plugin to my blog. However I think I have found a bug. The line “lp_other_langs(’none’, ‘

‘, ‘

(’, ‘)

‘);” is added into index.php in the meta part of an entry.
The link that is generated is not working. The ?lp_lang_view=en is added at the end of the link, however this does not work when WP allready has added ?p=220. The plugin should, as you proberbly know, add &lp_lang_view=en instead, to get the link to work. Hope this is easy to fix. A sneek preview of my blog can be seen at http://217.8.138.143/~nortis/blog/index.php?lp_lang_pref=en

By: David

David — Tue, 20 Jul 2004 09:44:20 +0000

I’m sorry to have bothered you with this. It seems there were multiple files which had excessive white space. That made PHP complain.

The problem is fixed now.
Thanks for a fine plugin.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 13 Jul 2004 22:57:30 +0000

Could you post a URL so I could see an example of what you’re talking about, David?

By: David

David — Tue, 13 Jul 2004 14:43:12 +0000

It seems I have the same error about the headers that are being resent (post 1 and 2). I have it on two brand-new installations, and two different hosts. It would be very suspicious if it’s the host.
Would you have some ideas about this? WordPress is really unusable due to this error, sadly.

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 10 Jul 2004 16:36:42 +0000

The thing about titles has to do with where there are filters available. Until the next version of WP, titles probably won’t be possible, unless I make use of custom fields… I’ll have to look at it some more…

By: Nortis

Nortis — Sat, 10 Jul 2004 16:34:38 +0000

Hello, grate plug-in. Works wonderful except the problem with titles. Have there been (or will be?) any fixes for that?

By: Aletheia

Aletheia — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 10:20:23 +0000

Hi Jason,
it seems I’ve fixed the error. I’m not sure how, but it’s over now.
About the title thing, do you think it could be done adding a new custom field for the second language?