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Hi everyone,

as the title says, where is the language variable predefined??? on my system, when i'm using "echo $language", the result is always english, I'm just wondering where the system defined the variable?? because i'm working on multiple languages now, and i need to know where to find it. I know there's a page called languages.php, but I don't think $language is only defined there. it seems that $language comes from a session or somewhere.

please help.

Thanks

/includes/application_top.php

simon

thanks for your reply soundsgood2, do you mean it's defined here? but unfortunately this part of code wasn't being used since the IF statement wasn't true. I still get the result english when i'm "echo $language" even after i commented this part out. but "echo $language" didn't work before tep_session_start();, so i guess it's from a session??

// set the language
if (!tep_session_is_registered('language') || isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['language'])) {
if (!tep_session_is_registered('language')) {
tep_session_register('language');
tep_session_register('languages_id');
}

include(DIR_WS_CLASSES . 'language.php');
$lng = new language();

if (isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['language']) && tep_not_null($HTTP_GET_VARS['language'])) {
$lng->set_language($HTTP_GET_VARS['language']);
} else {
$lng->get_browser_language();
}

$language = $lng->language['directory'];
$languages_id = $lng->language['id'];
}

Yes it's from a session - how else would you get multilanguage ability? So you'd have a selector on the frontpage of your store where language is chosen by customer.

If you're just looking at hardcoding the store to a non-english language then there are a bunch of other things you can do to achieve this, one step is as per the other thread you posted the same question on.

Your first main hurdle of course would be making sure you had non-english language translations for all the language defines in the cart.

Simon

Hi Simon,

thanks, i got it. $language is actually defined in application_top.php and it was in that part of code i posted. it was me didn't pay enough attention and asking dumb questions . because i only removed cookies when i'm testing the code, but not the session, that's why the $language = english was always there.

thanks for your help.