Reply To: Use ACF as multilanguage solution

• buckdanny

• July 4, 2015 at 2:17 am

this is absolutely great!

I am testing this and its looking very promising,
f.e. because it can be used more specific (f.e. for a certain field) and is not that general.

at the moment i have this:

Links in header.php

<?$data = array('lang'=>'en');?>
<a href="?<?echo http_build_query($data) . "\n";?>">English</a>
<?$data = array('lang'=>'ger');?>
<a href="?<?echo http_build_query($data) . "\n";?>">Deutsch</a>

in functions.php I set a cookie from the links above

///// Set cookie
add_action('init', function() {
global $language;	
	
	
/////set cookie from GET:
	
if(isset($_GET['lang']))
{
$lang = $_GET['lang'];	 	
setcookie('lang', $lang, strtotime('+1 day'),"/", false);
 }
		
///receive value from cookie and get	
if (isset($_COOKIE['lang'])){
		  
echo "<br>cookie:<br>";
echo $_COOKIE['lang'];   
  
$language = $_COOKIE['lang']; ///sanitize this later… 
} 

if (isset($_GET['lang'])) {
echo "<br>GET:<br>";
echo $_GET['lang'];  
$language = $_GET['lang']; //// sanitize
		
} 

echo "<br>language global is: ".$language."<br><br>";		

});
//// end set cookie

in the post template i use this

	<? echo get_multilingual_field("haupttext"); ?>

and in functions.php i declare the function like this

///multilanguage field
function get_multilingual_field($field_name) {
global $language;	

 $value = get_field($field_name.'_'.$language, false, false);
    if (!$value) {
        // no value returned for language
        // get the default
		
		
			// no translation print out a message		
			if ($language=="en")
			{
	        $value = "Sorry, no translation available<br><br>";
		
			}		        
        $value.= get_field($field_name,false, false);
    }

    return $value;
}
	

i can use this approach very flexible, for example
i have a function to show the date
and i can modify it to show german/american date very easily

function datumzeit($id) {
global $language;
/////std date		
$folge_std_min= 'j.n.Y, H:i \h';

if($language=="en")
{
$folge_std_min= 'n.j.Y, h:i A';
}		
$timestamp = get_field("zeitstempel", $id);
echo date($folge, $timestamp);
}

i also have a switch function to translate a certain field (based on a dropdown list)…

and so on, thank you so much for your help!
what do you think is this a good way to do this?

PS: Sorry for the not so nice code and the debug-infos…
PPS: to use this all echos in the first function need to delete

PPPS: I just disabled wpml and the performance is insane. Backend loads in 2,4 sek. With wpml / string translation etc the loading time was 8 sek!