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Jan 23.2006

Hi,

I am currently obtaining the browsers language type using the following: –

[CODE]
 // Get the users language
$users_lang = explode(“,”, getenv(“HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE”));
$users_lang = strtolower($users_lang[0]);

if(empty($users_lang)) {
$users_lang = “Unknown”;
}
[/CODE]

There is not a problem with the code perse, the problem i have is that it is coming up with 60% of them as unknown.

Is there a more efficient way to do it?

Thanks
k0r54

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@bokehJan 23.2006 — Here's one way:[code=php]<?php
list($first_user_lang) = preg_split('/[,;]/', $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'], 2);
echo $first_user_lang;
?>[/code]

On my website - English Spanish Translation - in my signature I do it differently. I run through $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'] and see which of the languages I provide comes earlier in the string. If not at all then I serve the default language (English). [URL=http://bokehman.com/calendar]On this page[/URL] I do the same with four languages.
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@k0r54authorJan 24.2006 — Would that be more efficient than mine?

Why would yours pick up more than mine? (that not meant in any degrading way, i just want to know)

Thanks

k0r54
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@bokehJan 24.2006 — Who knows? It's just that you said yours doesn't work 60% of the time. I can't replicate that error. The only time I can get it to output unknown is if I delete the browser languages.

What are you doing with that info? There might be a better way to do it.
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@k0r54authorJan 24.2006 — ahhh ok lol,

It just for my clickcount

Thanks

k0r54
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