Hi everyone,
in the past I faced a little issue in one of my sites.
Situation:
- The site uses the Joomla 3 multilingual features and a module "Language Switcher" to change the language.
- I configured Seblod to be multilingual too (JText) and setup a content type "products" with Checkboxes, etc.
- The problem I had was, that in an article the language switcher would redirect to the right Itemid, but not the article
To solve this problem I did the following
- created an override for "mod_languages" and selected the override in the language switcher module
- added the following code on top
$jinput = JFactory::getApplication()->input;
if ($jinput->getString('option') == 'com_content' && $jinput->getInt('id') && $jinput->getInt('Itemid') == --menu-Itemid-where-override-should-be-active--
$articleId = preg_replace('/-/', ':', substr(strrchr(JUri::current(), "/"), 1), 1);
foreach ($list as $language) {
if (!$language->active) {
$language->link = JRoute::_("index.php?view=article&id=" . $articleId . "&Itemid=" . --language-associated-menu-item--
}
}
}
This change is not only helpful for the users to change the language and not lose track, but also for search engines if the "hreflang" property is set in the Language Switcher module.
Hope this is helpful for you!
What do you think?
Best Regards
sUrfa
