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    Menno Pietersen Reply #1, 13 years, 11 months ago
    My client has a newsletter with links like:
    http://somesite.com/singnup.com

    The client's website is multiligual (English: http://somesite.com/en/, German: http://somesite.com/de/ and French: http://somesite.com/fr/)
    This part is working fine, I have Babel and Redirector installed.

    They want to redirect the link of the newsletter to a specific page.

    Can anybody help to to do this?
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      saschame Reply #2, 13 years, 10 months ago
      You could write a snippet to check the HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE like:

      $lang = substr($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'], 0, 2);
switch ($lang){
    case "fr":
        //redirect to FR
        break;
    case "en":
        //redirect to EN
        break;
    default:
        //redirect to DE
        break;
}


      A good overview of some more advanced methods to check for HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE can be found in this thread on stackoverflow:
      http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3770513/detect-browser-language-in-php

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        Menno Pietersen Reply #3, 13 years, 10 months ago
        Thanks, can you help a bit more and tell me where I should load/place this snippet?
        I broke my DEV by activating it on page load...

        I already use a gateway plugin:

        <?php
//make sure the plugin does not run on the mgr context (the manager)
  if ( $modx->context->get( 'key' ) != 'mgr') {
    /**
     * grab the current context from the request "c" parameter (or context_param_alias from system settings)
     * the alternative .htaccess friendly URL rewrite rule must be activated
     */
    $cntxt_param = $modx->getOption('context_param_alias', null, 'c');
    if ( isset( $_REQUEST[$cntxt_param] ) && $_REQUEST[$cntxt_param] != '' ) {
      switch ( $_REQUEST[$cntxt_param] ) {
          
        case 'en':
          //switch the context
          $modx->switchContext('web');
          //set the cultureKey
          $modx->setOption('cultureKey', 'en');
          break;
          
        case 'fr':
          $modx->switchContext('fr');
          $modx->setOption('cultureKey', 'fr');
          break;
          
       case 'de':
          $modx->switchContext('de');
          $modx->setOption('cultureKey', 'de');
          break;

       case 'it':
          $modx->switchContext('it');
          $modx->setOption('cultureKey', 'it');
          break;
          
        default:
          // Set the default language/context here
          break;
      }
    }
  }


        This works fine, Babel works, and if I change my browser language to German, http://mysite.com gets redirected to http://mysite.com/de/

        The problem is that a link http://mysite.com/signup always goes to http://mysite.com/en/signup even if the language setting is German...
        In Redirector the link signup is redirected to signup.html but it is always selecting the EN language.... [ed. note: ThaClown last edited this post 13 years, 10 months ago.]
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          saschame Reply #4, 13 years, 10 months ago
          I would have placed the snippet on the http://mysite.com/signup page.

          Maybe this is a hack, but why not exclude the signup page from your plugin:

          <?php
// disable plugin for these resources
$exclude_pages = array(23, 34);
//make sure the plugin does not run on the mgr context (the manager)
  if ( $modx->context->get( 'key' ) != 'mgr' && !in_array($modx->resource->get('id'),$excluded_pages) ) {
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