How get web browser preferred language with PHP

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This function is a lightweight script to detect and handle user languages based on the $_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"] data the browser sends to the server.

 

function getlanguage()

{

	$langCode = substr($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'], 0, 2);

	$languages = array(

	'af' => 'Afrikaans',

	'sq' => 'Albanian',

	'am' => 'Amharic',

	'ar-dz' => 'Arabic (Algeria)',

	'ar-bh' => 'Arabic (Bahrain)',

	'ar-eg' => 'Arabic (Egypt)',

	'ar-iq' => 'Arabic (Iraq)',

	'ar-jo' => 'Arabic (Jordan)',

	'ar-kw' => 'Arabic (Kuwait)',

	'ar-lb' => 'Arabic (Lebanon)',

	'ar-ly' => 'Arabic (Libya)',

	'ar-ma' => 'Arabic (Morocco)',

	'ar-om' => 'Arabic (Oman)',

	'ar-qa' => 'Arabic (Qatar)',

	'ar-sa' => 'Arabic (Saudi Arabia)',

	'ar-sy' => 'Arabic (Syria)',

	'ar-tn' => 'Arabic (Tunisia)',

	'ar-ae' => 'Arabic (U.A.E.)',

	'ar-ye' => 'Arabic (Yemen)',

	'ar' => 'Arabic',

	'hy' => 'Armenian',

	'as' => 'Assamese',

	'az' => 'Azeri',

	'eu' => 'Basque',

	'be' => 'Belarusian',

	'bn' => 'Bengali',

	'bs' => 'Bosnian',

	'bg' => 'Bulgarian',

	'my' => 'Burmese',

	'ca' => 'Catalan',

	'zh-cn' => 'Chinese (China)',

	'zh-hk' => 'Chinese (Hong Kong SAR)',

	'zh-mo' => 'Chinese (Macau SAR)',

	'zh-sg' => 'Chinese (Singapore)',

	'zh-tw' => 'Chinese (Taiwan)',

	'zh' => 'Chinese',

	'hr' => 'Croatian',

	'cs' => 'Czech',

	'da' => 'Danish',

	'div' => 'Divehi',

	'nl-be' => 'Dutch (Belgium)',

	'nl' => 'Dutch (Netherlands)',

	'en-au' => 'English (Australia)',

	'en-bz' => 'English (Belize)',

	'en-ca' => 'English (Canada)',

	'en-cb' => 'English (Caribbean)',

	'en-in' => 'English (India)',

	'en-ie' => 'English (Ireland)',

	'en-jm' => 'English (Jamaica)',

	'en-nz' => 'English (New Zealand)',

	'en-ph' => 'English (Philippines)',

	'en-za' => 'English (South Africa)',

	'en-tt' => 'English (Trinidad)',

	'en-gb' => 'English (United Kingdom)',

	'en-us' => 'English (United States)',

	'en-zw' => 'English (Zimbabwe)',

	'en' => 'English',

	'us' => 'English (United States)',

	'et' => 'Estonian',

	'fo' => 'Faeroese',

	'fa' => 'Farsi',

	'fi' => 'Finnish',

	'fr-be' => 'French (Belgium)',

	'fr-ca' => 'French (Canada)',

	'fr-lu' => 'French (Luxembourg)',

	'fr-mc' => 'French (Monaco)',

	'fr-ch' => 'French (Switzerland)',

	'fr' => 'French (France)',

	'mk' => 'FYRO Macedonian',

	'gd' => 'Gaelic',

	'ka' => 'Georgian',

	'de-at' => 'German (Austria)',

	'de-li' => 'German (Liechtenstein)',

	'de-lu' => 'German (Luxembourg)',

	'de-ch' => 'German (Switzerland)',

	'de' => 'German (Germany)',

	'el' => 'Greek',

	'gn' => 'Guarani (Paraguay)',

	'gu' => 'Gujarati',

	'he' => 'Hebrew',

	'hi' => 'Hindi',

	'hu' => 'Hungarian',

	'is' => 'Icelandic',

	'id' => 'Indonesian',

	'it-ch' => 'Italian (Switzerland)',

	'it' => 'Italian (Italy)',

	'ja' => 'Japanese',

	'kn' => 'Kannada',

	'ks' => 'Kashmiri',

	'kk' => 'Kazakh',

	'km' => 'Khmer',

	'kok' => 'Konkani',

	'ko' => 'Korean',

	'kz' => 'Kyrgyz',

	'lo' => 'Lao',

	'la' => 'Latin',

	'lv' => 'Latvian',

	'lt' => 'Lithuanian',

	'ms-bn' => 'Malay (Brunei)',

	'ms-my' => 'Malay (Malaysia)',

	'ms' => 'Malay',

	'ml' => 'Malayalam',

	'mt' => 'Maltese',

	'mi' => 'Maori',

	'mr' => 'Marathi',

	'mn' => 'Mongolian (Cyrillic)',

	'ne' => 'Nepali (India)',

	'nb-no' => 'Norwegian (Bokmal)',

	'nn-no' => 'Norwegian (Nynorsk)',

	'no' => 'Norwegian (Bokmal)',

	'or' => 'Oriya',

	'pl' => 'Polish',

	'pt-br' => 'Portuguese (Brazil)',

	'pt' => 'Portuguese (Portugal)',

	'pa' => 'Punjabi',

	'rm' => 'Rhaeto-Romanic',

	'ro-md' => 'Romanian (Moldova)',

	'ro' => 'Romanian',

	'ru-md' => 'Russian (Moldova)',

	'ru' => 'Russian',

	'sa' => 'Sanskrit',

	'sr' => 'Serbian',

	'sd' => 'Sindhi',

	'si' => 'Sinhala',

	'sk' => 'Slovak',

	'ls' => 'Slovenian',

	'so' => 'Somali',

	'sb' => 'Sorbian',

	'es-ar' => 'Spanish (Argentina)',

	'es-bo' => 'Spanish (Bolivia)',

	'es-cl' => 'Spanish (Chile)',

	'es-co' => 'Spanish (Colombia)',

	'es-cr' => 'Spanish (Costa Rica)',

	'es-do' => 'Spanish (Dominican Republic)',

	'es-ec' => 'Spanish (Ecuador)',

	'es-sv' => 'Spanish (El Salvador)',

	'es-gt' => 'Spanish (Guatemala)',

	'es-hn' => 'Spanish (Honduras)',

	'es-mx' => 'Spanish (Mexico)',

	'es-ni' => 'Spanish (Nicaragua)',

	'es-pa' => 'Spanish (Panama)',

	'es-py' => 'Spanish (Paraguay)',

	'es-pe' => 'Spanish (Peru)',

	'es-pr' => 'Spanish (Puerto Rico)',

	'es-us' => 'Spanish (United States)',

	'es-uy' => 'Spanish (Uruguay)',

	'es-ve' => 'Spanish (Venezuela)',

	'es' => 'Spanish (Traditional Sort)',

	'sx' => 'Sutu',

	'sw' => 'Swahili',

	'sv-fi' => 'Swedish (Finland)',

	'sv' => 'Swedish',

	'syr' => 'Syriac',

	'tg' => 'Tajik',

	'ta' => 'Tamil',

	'tt' => 'Tatar',

	'te' => 'Telugu',

	'th' => 'Thai',

	'bo' => 'Tibetan',

	'ts' => 'Tsonga',

	'tn' => 'Tswana',

	'tr' => 'Turkish',

	'tk' => 'Turkmen',

	'uk' => 'Ukrainian',

	'ur' => 'Urdu',

	'uz' => 'Uzbek',

	'vi' => 'Vietnamese',

	'cy' => 'Welsh',

	'xh' => 'Xhosa',

	'yi' => 'Yiddish',

	'zu' => 'Zulu' );



	return $languages[$langCode];

}



echo getlanguage();

 

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