How to Detect User’s Language Using PHP

• July 4, 2013
• PHP
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Hi all,

I know seeing this post topic, you will think is a huge of code but looking through it well you recognise its just a pieces of codes integrated to give us what we are looking for. Here every browser has a language its browsing with, now I use PHP to call it out with the $_SERVER function

1. <?php
2. echo $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'];
3. ?>

the output of that is this en-US,en;q=0.5  because am using English, now we can’t use all this to know the language i will need only the en to know its English, now what are we to do?

Am going to use the substr() function to delete some letters, here it goes

1. <?php
2. $language = substr($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'], 0, 2);
3. echo $language;
5. //you can identify a user's language using this
6. if($language=='en')
7. {
8. echo"Hello user, you are English!";
9. }
10. ?>

The output of that code will just be en

Hope it helps!

James John

Software Engineer

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