different output depending on folder name

[maraa]

Hi,
I am working on a website (set-up in Wordpress) in 5 languages, each language is in one folder: domain.com/en/, domain.com/es/ etc.

Now I want for example in the sidebar and in the header to appear content depending on the language (=folder).

For example: If I am on any page inside the folder ../en/, I want to show the site menu only with the sites in english, in the sidebar I want to show the links and Ads in english etc.

My php knowledge is pretty limited, so I would be happy if somebody could help me with some advice.


Thanks a lot!

[Dormilich]

if your language specific folder contains all necessary files, you can use relative path names and you shouldn’t have further problems to include headers, footers, sidebars, etc.

[maraa]

Hi Dormilich, thanks for your reply.

I am using Wordpress as a CMS for this website, so there ist no "real" folder structure, all the content is in the data base and the layout uses the same templates for all languages.
So I have one sidebar file and one header file for the whole website. Within those files I need to put different content, depending on the language. How do I detect the language then?
Some kind of function which checks if the current page URL contains the folder /en/, /es/, etc.
"if the url contains /en/, show me sidebar content for /en/..."

I hope you understand my idea?! ;-)

Thanks for your help!

[Dormilich]

do you know, whether the URL is passed through mod_rewrite? (then you would probably have a variable with that value) maybe this is mentioned somewhere in the wordpress documentation.

[maraa]

yes, the site is using mod_rewrite to rewrite the urls. how can i get a variable out of that?

[Dormilich]

that must be mentioned in the documentation. otherwise, if you have access to the .htaccess file (which I doubt), you could look it up there.