[Typo3] Language selection not displayed on multi language site

[Antje Lewis]

hi,
i don't know about the language selection being supposed to appear 
automatically anywhere.
this is how i do it (3 steps):

1
i add this line to my html template:

<div id="langnav">###LANG###</div>

2
then i refer to this in my template setup TS:

page.10 {
   marks.LANG = PHP_SCRIPT
   marks.LANG.file = media/scripts/ahl/lang_change.php
   ....
}

3
and the content of that php script based on the model by kasper is:

<?php
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/**
  * Creates a language-selector menu with three flags, an english, a danish 
and a german flag for each language supported on the site.
  *
  * THIS IS from AN EXAMPLE designed to work with the official TYPO3 
testsite, section "Another site in the ..."
  *
  * $Id: example_languageMenu.php,v 1.4 2004/03/22 15:46:24 typo3 Exp $
  * Revised for TYPO3 3.6 June/2003 by Kasper Skaarhoj
  * XHTML compliant
  *
  * @author      Kasper Skaarhoj <kasper at typo3.com>
  */


if (!is_object($this)) die ('Error: No parent object present.');

// First, select all pages_language_overlay records on the current page. 
Each represents a possibility for a language.
$res = $GLOBALS['TYPO3_DB']->exec_SELECTquery('*', 
'pages_language_overlay', 
'pid='.intval($GLOBALS['TSFE']->id).$GLOBALS['TSFE']->sys_page->enableFields('pages_language_overlay'), 
'sys_language_uid');

$langArr = array();
while($row = $GLOBALS['TYPO3_DB']->sql_fetch_assoc($res))       {
         $langArr[$row['sys_language_uid']] = $row['title'];
}

// Little red arrow, which is inserted to the left of the flag-icon if the 
TSFE->sys_language_uid equals the language uid (notice that 0=english, 
1=danish and 2=german is SPECIFIC to this database, because these numbers 
refer to uid's of the table sys_language)
#$pointer_on = '<img src="fileadmin/img/pointer_on.gif" width="7" 
height="10" align="absmiddle" alt="" />';
#$pointer_off= '<img src="fileadmin/img/pointer_off.gif" width="7" 
height="10" align="absmiddle" alt="" />';

// Set each icon. If the language is the current, red arrow is printed to 
the left. If the language is NOT found (represented by a 
pages_language_overlay record on this page), the icon is dimmed.
$flags = array();

/*
$flags[] = ('<span 
class="'.($GLOBALS['TSFE']->sys_language_uid==1?"lang_chg":"lang_act").'"><a 
href="'.htmlspecialchars('index.php?id='.$GLOBALS['TSFE']->id.'&lang=0').'" 
target="_top">English</a></span>';

$flags[] = ('<span 
class="'.($GLOBALS['TSFE']->sys_language_uid==1?"lang_act":"lang_chg").'"><a 
href="'.htmlspecialchars('index.php?id='.$GLOBALS['TSFE']->id.'&lang=1').'" 
target="_top">Russian</a></span>';
*/

$flags[] = '<span 
class="'.($GLOBALS['TSFE']->sys_language_uid==1?"lang_chg":"ak").'"><a 
href="index.php?id='.$GLOBALS['TSFE']->id.'&lang=0'.'">English</a></span>';
$flags[] = '<span 
class="'.($GLOBALS['TSFE']->sys_language_uid==1?"ak":"lang_chg").'"><a 
href="index.php?id='.$GLOBALS['TSFE']->id.'&lang=1'.'">Russian</a></span>';

#<a href="#">English</a> | <span class="ak">Russian</span>

// Make the little menu. Notice, the menu does ONLY transfer the page-id 
and the "L" variable (which is also SPECIFIC for this website because "L" 
has been used in the extension template used to control the language setup)
#$content = "<p>".implode('&nbsp;',$flags)."</p>";
$content = implode('&nbsp;|&nbsp;',$flags);
?>


At 12:17 06.11.2005, you wrote:

>I am trying to add multi language capabilities to my website. I have 
>succeeded so far by adding an alternative page language and I was offered 
>a language selection in the backend to translate all my content elements. 
>I have translated the content of my start page and on page on subsequent 
>level. However, there is no language selector menu in the bottom of the 
>page displayed. According to the documention, I understand it should 
>automatically appear. Can anyone shed some light on this? Do I have to 
>change anything in the template or the TS setup?
>
>Thanks,
>Andreas
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