#SOLVED# global block called depending on language

[Chaploo]

Hi everybody,

I have a three language WB 2.7 site (english, german, russian) and was wondering if it's possible to create a global block for each language and to call it in the template in any way so that the global block of the right language appears.
I have three global block pages:

DE
- slogan.php

EN
- slogan.php

RU
- slogan.php

And in the template I want to call them as usual like this:

<?php include (WB_URL."/pages/slogan.php"); ?>

But I have to put the language selection in it, I tried something like

<?php include (WB_URL."/pages/".LANGUAGE."/slogan.php"); ?> or
<?php include (WB_URL."/pages/".$lang."/slogan.php"); ?>

But unfortunately it didn't work and my php knowledge is far too little ...

Does anybody have an idea or a hint?

Regards
Jochen

[Chaploo]

If anybody is interested: I finally got an answer to this problem in the German forum, thanks to BerndJM!

The solution is:

<?php include (WB_URL."/pages/".strtolower(LANGUAGE)."/slogan.php"); ?>

and - of course - to give each page the right language in the page settings menu.

Regards
Jochen

[whitestream6]

If anybody is interested: I finally got an answer to this problem in the German forum, thanks to BerndJM!

The solution is:

<?php include (WB_URL."/pages/".strtolower(LANGUAGE)."/slogan.php"); ?>

and - of course - to give each page the right language in the page settings menu.

Regards
Jochen

Thanks, that's useful for me too!

[sare]

Hi there,

I'm testing global blocks for the first time, and ran into problems.

Doesn't work with WB_URL, but that's a server safety setting it seems (no URLs allowed to include). Can't change that, so have to look further. The curl version someone posted doesn't work either, also due to server settings.

Changing WB_URL to WB_PATH does work, sort of. I have this code:

include_once(WB_PATH."/".strtolower(LANGUAGE)."/leftcolumn.php");

With that the global block shows on the page, but it disregards the template setting (blank template) and uses the default template instead.

I'll trace what exactly happens when doing the include, but it might take some time.

I'd appreciate some comments on this, if you've got global blocks to work without WB_URL.

[masarin]

Thank you for this info.
It also works with curl:

Code:

                 
<?php

                            $ch = curl_init();

                            $timeout = 5; // set to zero for no timeout

                            curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, WB_URL."/pages/".strtolower(LANGUAGE)."/block.php");

                            curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

                            curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);

                            $file_contents = curl_exec($ch);

                            curl_close($ch);

                            // display file

                            echo $file_contents;

?>

[DarkViper]

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[Roych]

Hello
I have two language page and I have tried everything that you'we said in upper posts but non of them is working on my page.

I'we tried:

Code:

<?php include (WB_URL."/pages/".strtolower(LANGUAGE)."/novice_side.php"); ?>

and

Code:

<?php include_once(WB_PATH."/".strtolower(LANGUAGE)."/novice_side.php"); ?>

When I tried curl my hole server almost died!

Due to all this nothing is shown on my pages.

right now I have:

Code:

<?php

global $wb;

$current_page_id = $wb->page_id;

$wb->page_id = 80; 

page_content(18);

$wb->page_id = $current_page_id;

?>

this works but, not what I need!

any idea?

[Roych]

Anyone?? 

thx!

[Ruud]

You first include line will probably not work.
It is using WB_URL (http://www.yourserver.tld). You should not include that.

The second one might work, as long as the page you are referring to exists.
Try replacing the "include_once" with "echo".
It should show the page it tries to include. If you see the pagename
(like /some/long/path/to/your/webroot/en/novice_side.php ) the next step is to check if that file exists on your server. (my guess is "no")

Also set your errorlevel (Settings -> Advanced settings) to E_ALL. That might give you some more insight in what is wrong.

[Roych]

Thanx for the reply!

I tried echo and it shows me the right path to my .php file and if I enter these path in the browser it opens the right page. But if I change echo back to include_once nothing is shown. My pages exists in the right folders.

thx

[Ruud]

if it shows the path you can open in your browser, it is the wrong path (built with WB_URL).
You should see a path (without http://) the webserver can include. That is not a path you can open in a browser.

[Roych]

Sorry didn't say it right

this is the path tha WB shows me:
/var/www/vhosts/festival-kamping-karavaning.si/httpdocs/en/sidebar_novice.php

you can see it here: (testing content) on the right side under the newsletter!
www.festival-kamping-karavaning.si

If I put pages/en/sidebar_novice.php or pages/si/sidebar_novice.php

it shows me that the pages exists. Or am I missing something?



I'm not a ccoder but uderstand a little so be gentle if I'm totally wrong at what Im doing.

thx!

[Ruud]

In this case you are including a page that is generated by WB.
You should not do that. Including (as a standard PHP function) can be used for php scripts that are NOT part of WB pages.
The page you now want to include is a part of the complete pagebuilding in WB. It is not the page itself.

The second option (some posts ago) where you include the php code is the way to go for including content from other WB pages.

Code:

<?php
global $wb;
$current_page_id = $wb->page_id;
$wb->page_id = 80; 
page_content(18);
$wb->page_id = $current_page_id;
?>

this works but, not what I need!

So the real question is... What do you need?

[Roych]

ok

I would like to have some content that I'we created in WB background, shown on every page, but would like the content to change when I choose some other language.

Code:

<?php
global $wb;
$current_page_id = $wb->page_id;
$wb->page_id = 80; 
page_content(18);
$wb->page_id = $current_page_id;
?>

the code above does the trick but it shows the same content on all languages (in this case page ID 80).
I would like the content to change to its right language so the ID's would somehow have to change on it self when I click a new language.



Don't know if I was clear enough.

[Ruud]

Ok, you should go this way...

Code: (untested)

<?php
global $wb;
$current_page_id = $wb->page_id;
if (LANGUAGE == 'EN') {
            $wb->page_id = 80; //page_id for english pages
} else {
            $wb->page_id = 12345; //page_id for non-english pages
}
page_content(1);  //use 1 for contentblock 1
$wb->page_id = $current_page_id;
?>

Test the language, and use the correct page_id for that language (not 12345)
Note that all pages must have the correct language set..

[Roych]

Yeeees!! you're the man! It works perfectly!

Thank you very much.