modified languageToggle plugin

[kuzma]

Beginning with OxS localization, I've realised that standard languageToggle plugin is not always useful, because it hides language names, so how somebody can guess box called "Idioma" or "Язык" can switch language to English? Better approach is to show all language links simultaneously (see A below). Another good practice is to use small national flag pictures to switch language (see B below).

A) To make textual language links, modify plugins/blocks/languageToggle/block.tpl as follows:

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{if $enableLanguageToggle}
<div class="block" id="sidebarLanguageToggle">
   {foreach from=$languageToggleLocales key=langkey item=langname}
      {if $langkey == $currentLocale}
         {$langname}
      {else}
         <a href={if $languageToggleNoUser}'{$currentUrl|escape}{if strstr($currentUrl, '?')}&{else}?{/if}setLocale={$langkey}'{else}'{url page="user" op="setLocale" path=$langkey source=$smarty.server.REQUEST_URI escape=false}'{/if}>
            {$langname}
         </a>
      {/if}
   {/foreach}
</div>
{/if}


B) File plugins/blocks/languageToggle/block.tpl needs following modifications to achieve the "flag toggling":

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{if $enableLanguageToggle}
<div class="block" id="sidebarLanguageToggle">
   {foreach from=$languageToggleLocales key=langkey item=langname}
      {if $langkey == $currentLocale}
         <img src="{$baseUrl}/plugins/blocks/LanguageToggle/locale/{$langkey}/flag.png" alt="{$langname}" title="{$langname}" width="24" height="16" />
      {else}
         <a class="icon" href={if $languageToggleNoUser}'{$currentUrl|escape}{if strstr($currentUrl, '?')}&{else}?{/if}setLocale={$langkey}'{else}'{url page="user" op="setLocale" path=$langkey source=$smarty.server.REQUEST_URI escape=false}'{/if}>
            <img src="{$baseUrl}/plugins/blocks/LanguageToggle/locale/{$langkey}/flag.png" alt="{$langname}" title="{$langname}" width="24" height="16" />
         </a>
      {/if}
   {/foreach}
</div>
{/if}


Also picture file flag.png is needed for each locale of languageToggle plugin:
plugins/blocks/LanguageToggle/locale/en_US/flag.png
plugins/blocks/LanguageToggle/locale/ru_RU/flag.png
...
Size of pictures in block.tpl should be adjusted to flag.png size (24x16 assumed in code above).

[mendesrocha]

Kuzma!

Thanks a lot for your code. It was very useful to achieve a Manager request.

Only a little correction: in the plugin address you capitalized the the first letter of plugin name and it is currently lowercase.

So in lines 5 and 9, instead of

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5,9   <img src="{$baseUrl}/plugins/blocks/LanguageToggle/locale/{$langkey}/flag.png" alt="{$langname}" title="{$langname}" width="24" height="16" />

you should write

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5,9   <img src="{$baseUrl}/plugins/blocks/languageToggle/locale/{$langkey}/flag.png" alt="{$langname}" title="{$langname}" width="24" height="16" />