Polylang plugin integration

[bozomax]

Hi!

This is not a request for help, but I thought I’d rather share my experience in integrating Polylang langauge plugin with Dante.

I have already posted a request for small modification in the source code of the parent theme here: …/dante-feature-request/page/21/#post-138835

In order to make this work, I used child theme’s functions.php and have overriden the original sf_language_flags() function (I had to change the function’s definition to conditional in the parent theme).

So below is my code for the new sf_language_flags(), which also incorporates the original code:

if (!function_exists('sf_language_flags')){	
	function sf_language_flags() {
		$language_output = "";
		if (function_exists('pll_the_languages')){
			$languages = pll_the_languages(array('raw'=>1));
			if(!empty($languages)){
				foreach($languages as $l){
		            $language_output .= '<li>';
		            if($l['flag']){
		                if(!$l['current_lang']) {
		                	$language_output .= '<a href="'.$l['url'].'"><img src="'.$l['flag'].'" height="12" alt="'.$l['slug'].'" width="18" /><span class="language name">'.$l['name'].'</span></a>'."\n";
		                } else {
		                	$language_output .= '<div class="current-language"><img src="'.$l['flag'].'" height="12" alt="'.$l['slug'].'" width="18" /><span class="language name">'.$l['name'].'</span></div>'."\n";
		                }
		            }
		            $language_output .= '</li>';
		         }   
			}
		} elseif (function_exists('icl_get_languages')) {
		    $languages = icl_get_languages('skip_missing=0&orderby=code');
		    if(!empty($languages)){
		        foreach($languages as $l){
		            $language_output .= '<li>';
		            if($l['country_flag_url']){
		                if(!$l['active']) {
		                	$language_output .= '<a href="'.$l['url'].'"><img src="'.$l['country_flag_url'].'" height="12" alt="'.$l['language_code'].'" width="18" /><span class="language name">'.$l['translated_name'].'</span></a>'."\n";
		                } else {
		                	$language_output .= '<div class="current-language"><img src="'.$l['country_flag_url'].'" height="12" alt="'.$l['language_code'].'" width="18" /><span class="language name">'.$l['translated_name'].'</span></div>'."\n";
		                }
		            }
		            $language_output .= '</li>';
		        }
		    }
	    } else {
	    	$flags_url = get_template_directory_uri() . '/images/flags';
	    	$language_output .= '<li><a href="#">DEMO - EXAMPLE PURPOSES</a></li><li><a href="#"><span class="language name">German</span></a></li><li><div class="current-language"><span class="language name">English</span></div></li><li><a href="#"><span class="language name">Spanish</span></a></li><li><a href="#"><span class="language name">French</span></a></li>'."\n";
        }
	   return $language_output;
	}
}

Note the order, I noticed that somehow (how?!) when I installed Polylang, it still could call the WPML’s function icl_get_languages and even get some data out of it! Such as urls and flag images…

I hope you will find this helpful.

[Rui Guerreiro – SUPPORT]

Hi,

Thanks for your contribution.
Will forward it to the development team.

-Rui

[Swift Ideas – Ed]

Thanks for the code! Will include that for the next update.

– Ed

[bozomax]

Hi! Thanks for the feedback. I just wanted to mention, that this thing only works for the normal menu, I didn’t change anything in the mobile menu, since, as I mentioned earlier, existing code is able to get the flags and links from the Polylang somehow…

[Kyle – SUPPORT]

Ok thanks