Language code $

[mark-b]

what is the Language code $? (en-us) I need this for my header script. The $ what i'm looking for is not $lang_iso

 

Please help

[tuk66]

$language.iso_code

$language.language_code

 

?

[NemoPS]

In addition to what tuk66 said, where do you need to get this?

[mark-b]

I'm building the tag for multilingual sites for in the header: 

rel="alternate" hreflang="x" 

[NemoPS]

Oh, in this case it is {$meta_language}

[mark-b]

Yes, but google does not support that tag anymore... https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en

 

rel="alternate" hreflang="x"   is required when you taget uk customers with /gb/ and if you also target US customers with /en/ 

[mark-b]

both did not work by the way we are building an module for this issue: $language.iso_code $language.language_code

[NemoPS]

I don't understand, if you use

 

rel="alternate" hreflang="{$meta_language}"

 

You'll have exactly what google expects   

[mark-b]

if you have 3 languages, it should be like this in the index page of one of the languages in the header:

 

<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-gb" href="http://www.domain.com/gb/" />

<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en " href="http://www.domain.com/en/" />

<link rel="alternate" hreflang="de" href="http://www.domain.com/de/ " />

[mark-b]

this tag is also needed when you want to target for eg French speaking customers in Canada  <link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr-ca" href="http://www.domain.com/ca/" />

                 

[NemoPS]

I see.

In this case, as far as I know Prestashop only provides the language code (en) without the country code (gb, us, etc).

I think you need to create a module for this (please, anybody correct me if I am mistaken!)

 

Now, are you looking for php to automaticaly recognize the  user country? Or do you want to set it from the back office? The second case will be easier to achieve, of course

[mark-b]

set it from the back office

[NemoPS]

In this case, I suggest you create a list of the countries you want to support. Place them in an array

Then, in the module's back office, grasb all your languages (Language::getLanguages(true))

 

At this point, for each language, use another foreach loop to run through all countries and add them to a select box.

 

Basically, you want to assign a country to each language ID.

 

Save entries to a new table, like id_lang, id_country

 

 

Then, in the hook function you use to print out links, grab your settings. For each of them, you can assign the id_lang-id_country pair based on what you decide (i.e. the link you are displaying)

[HH Services Limited]

So If I paste this: 

                <link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://www.goodpsychologists.com/en/" />

                <link rel="alternate" hreflang="es" href="http://www.goodpsychologists.com/es/" />

 

In the head section of the header.tpl file in the theme/defaultbootstrap directory, do I solve the google requirement for having  my site in spanish and english?

 

 

Thank you

Edited July 27, 2014 by npr321 (see edit history)