[Solved] different default language?

[ruilong]

If I set up 2 different domains, say one .se and one .com
Install prestashop on both of these pointing to the same database.
would it be possible to easy change the default language on the two stores? say, .com has english and .se has swedish for default? i.e override the default language parameter on one of the stores.

any ideas?

[Matthieu Biart]

Hi ruilong!

It's possible but you'll have to edit the PrestaShop core.
And I warn you, it will be irksome 'cause you'll have to replace all Configuration::get('PS_LANGUAGE_DEFAULT') calls.
Good luck adventurer.

[ruilong]

what if I just edit configuration class? would it be possible to do some kind of override on the get command?
like if(input = PS_LANGUAGE_DEFALUT) return language I want?

I did a try on this idea and ended up changing configuration.php in class
if($key=='PS_LANG_DEFAULT')
return 1;

where 1 is the id of the language I want, seems to be working, but I will do some more testing of this and se if it works well.. if it does, maybe prestashop 1.2 should get a new feature?
like the possibility to set different languages for different domains as default as this would be great from a SEO point of view (better than having many different languages on one domain)

[cactusman2]

Where did you add this line in the configuration.php file?
I'm very interested to give a try as I'm not happy with the management of multilanguage in PS.

[ruilong]

first line in "static public function get" (starts at line 89)

[bobslay]

Hi,
any update on this? I'm really interested in using this method as i already have 2 urls, one for english and one for french content. I would give it a try but i would like to have more info on how to do it. Maybe you could post part of your script so i could understand it.

Many thanks

[ruilong]

Not much to post really.. you need two ftps, change the file classes/configuration.php
first line in “static public function get” (starts at line 89)

and just add this
if($key==‘PS_LANG_DEFAULT’) return 1; (Where 1 is the id of the language you want for the url pointing to this ftp)

[merinoexperten]

I cant get it to work, I still have the problem with default language. When browse my website with one computer everything is default in Swedish and when i use the other it´s in English.

I tried to add the change in classes/configuration with no luck.

Br
Peter

[delite]

I have same problem as merinoexperten, the default language displayed on back office is Romanian but when i enter in the store its in English. The only solution i found is to disable English and keep Romanian as the only active language but im used to have backoffice in English so i really hope there is a fix.

P.S. i cleared all the browser cookies, temps, etc

Thank you!