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[sloger Friend slogerJoin date: November 2010Posts: 15Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#156868

Hello,
I’d like to be able to switch languages via a menu link, for example:

Home | About us | Russian

when the user clics on Russian, the site changes to russian and the menu would look like this:

Home | About us | English

If the user now clics on ‘english’ the site would go back to english and the menu would look like the first one.

I tried to put a language selector to the same position as menu, but for some reason, I don’t have this position in a drop-down list – maybe it’s a specific of the template that I use?

Also, I tried to create a menu item with a link like that:
http://www.prazdnik.ca/index.php?lang=ru
but Joomla adds item id at the end of the link – “&Itemid=73” and I get “page not found” error!

How can I accomplish this task, please?

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#364594

In JoomFish language selector is accomplished as a module. If you look at the code of mod_jflanguageselection you’ll see it’s not just a link. It involves trigging of the JF code and class. So, I’d recommend you to keep language selector as module and place it somewhere near the main menu.

[sloger Friend slogerJoin date: November 2010Posts: 15Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#364630

The point is – I can’t place it anywhere near the menu in this template!
There is no JA Menu position in the module’s position selector!?

It is beacause I could not place it near the menu, I decided to make it look like a menu item…

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#364651

Now, you open the file: templates/ja_quazt/index.php and find the following code:


<!-- END: MAIN NAVIGATION -->


replace:


<!-- END: MAIN NAVIGATION -->
<div class="ja-topleft">fdfd
<jdoc:include type="modules" name="topleft" />
</div>


and the following into the template.css file


.ja-topleft{
position:absolute;
top:0px;
right:10px;
}


When done, the template has a new position, it is “topleft”, you put the joomfish module on there

[sloger Friend slogerJoin date: November 2010Posts: 15Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#364915

I found another solution already:

Created menu item “Russian”, like that:
Home | About us | Russian

with a link:
http://www.prazdnik.ca/index.php?lang=ru
it is importat to use SEF URLs – this way you don’t get item ID at the end of the url…

Then, using Joomfish, translated menu item into “English” and the link into “http://www.prazdnik.ca/index.php?lang=en”

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