Custom page with multi lang support

Custom page with multi lang support

by Rafael Roijackers -
Number of replies: 6

Dear Users,

I'm trying to create a custom support page, were students can find how to configue their computer for some courses. But I need to create it in 3 languages. This is what I currently have:

<?php

require_once('../config.php'); require_login();

$PAGE->set_context(get_system_context());
$PAGE->set_pagelayout('admin');
$PAGE->set_title("OEM Support Center");
$PAGE->set_heading("Support Center");
$PAGE->set_url($CFG->wwwroot.'/oem-pages/support.php');

echo $OUTPUT->header();
?>
<p>
<span lang="nl" class="multilang">your_content_here</span>
<span lang="de" class="multilang">your_content_in_other_language_here</span>
</p>
<?php
echo $OUTPUT->footer();
?>

But this doesn't work. I think I need to embed the Multilang FIlter, but how can I do it? Thank you for your help.

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In reply to Rafael Roijackers

Re: Custom page with multi lang support

by Davo Smith -
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If you want your text to run through the multilang filter, then you need to call format_text() on it.

e.g.

$mytext = '<p>
<span lang="nl" class="multilang">your_content_here</span>
<span lang="de" class="multilang">your_content_in_other_language_here</span>
</p>';

echo format_text($mytext);

But really, if you're wanting to output different text in different languages and you're not using a text editor to enter the text in the front end, then it would be a lot simpler simply to write:

$lang = current_languate();

if ($lang == 'nl') {
  echo '<p>nl content</p>';
} else if ($lang == 'de') {
  echo '<p>de content</p>';
}

Or if the text is fixed, why not make use of the built-in fix language string support:

echo get_string('mycontent', 'myplugin');

Then, in your plugin's language strings (lang/en/myplugin.php, lang/de/myplugin.php, etc.), add the following:
$strings['mycontent'] = 'The content you want, in each relevant language';


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Re: Custom page with multi lang support

by Rafael Roijackers -

Thank you for your help. Because it will be a long text I've used this function:


$lang = current_language();

if ($lang == 'nl') {
  echo '<p>nl content</p>';
} else if ($lang == 'de') {
  echo '<p>de content</p>';
}

Instead of the echo, I used the include command. And I've created 2 files with the content in their own language. At the frontend the user only sees 1 pages, but in the backend the editing is much easier.

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Re: Custom page with multi lang support

by Alexander Bias -
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Hi Rafael,

as you would write plain HTML in your custom support page anyway, you might be interested in our plugin https://moodle.org/plugins/local_staticpage which lets you display HTML content as a static Moodle page and which support multilanguage content out of the box.

Cheers,
Alex

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Re: Custom page with multi lang support

by Rafael Roijackers -

Thank you for the idea. But we're using an iomad implementation of Moodle 3.3. So I don't know if this plugin will be supported by Iomad or that the Iomad part will give trouble.

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Re: Custom page with multi lang support

by Alexander Bias -
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Hi Rafael,

I don't know much about Iomad, I can only tell you that the plugin is currently used on approx. 1.400 sites worldwide and that we haven't received any problem reports about Iomad yet. 

Cheers,
Alex

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Re: Custom page with multi lang support

by Rafael Roijackers -

Thank you for the advice. Maybe I will check this plugin in the future.

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