How to detect the current language of a Joomla! website?

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leonyx picture leonyx · Jul 28, 2010 · Viewed 58.2k times · Source

I just want to generate a code that will detect the current language of my websit in joomla + php

Answer

MvanGeest picture MvanGeest · Jul 28, 2010

See getLanguage in JFactory:

$lang = JFactory::getLanguage();
echo 'Current language is: ' . $lang->getName();

Once you have the language, you can also retrieve the locale/language code (e.g. en-US). Joomla! languages can have multiple locales, so you'll get an array.

$lang = JFactory::getLanguage();
foreach($lang->getLocale()  as  $locale) {
    echo 'This language supports the locale: ' . $locale;
}

If for some reason, you are only interested in the first locale, you can simply grab the first element. You will probably need an array, like this:

$lang = JFactory::getLanguage();
$locales = $lang->getLocale();
echo 'This language\'s first locale is: ' . $locales[0];

If you just want to get the selected language tag (e.g. pt-PT) you can use getTag()

$lang = JFactory::getLanguage();
echo 'Current language is: ' . $lang->getTag();

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