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Send visitor to different page based on their language settings

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richiwatts

richiwatts

Technical User
Jun 21, 2002
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Hi,

Does anyone know of a script that checks the user's language settings and then redirects them to a home page that has their language. I have seen this done in PHP but not in ASP.

E.g
All visitors come in at
Script checks user's language settings and if German, user is automaticallly directed to
I need it to work with 4 languages and if the language is not detectable or doesn't match the languages they stay at to select a local site from a map.

The languages I need

en-uk
en-us
de (german)
sv (Swedish

If not, can I use PHP inside a page with .asp extension?

Richi
 
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You can do something like this:

Code: 
if (Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE") <> "da") Then
Response.Redirect("myserver/da.asp")
End if


/Adam
 
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Sorry, I am a biginner. How would I write this out? Would it go in between <head> </head>

Thanks for your help,
Rich
 
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Above everything...

Code: 
<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT">
<%
if (Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE") = "da") Then
Response.Redirect("myserver/danish.asp")
Elseif (Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE") = "se") Then
Response.Redirect("myserver/swedish.asp")
End if
%>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

/Adam
 
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Thanks Adam,

For UK and US do I use the following language code??

"en-uk"
"en-us"

Thanks for your help.

Rich
 
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Another way is to change your regional settings from control pannel to the country code you want. For example, set your regional settings to Swedish, then create an ASP page with following code and access it from your browser. It will return you the language code.

Code: 
<%=Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE")%>


/Adam
 
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try this:

Code: 
<% 

sLanguage = Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE") 

If InStr(sLanguage, "fr") <> 0 Then
Response.Write "Bonjour"
ElseIf InStr(sLanguage, "es") <> 0 Then
Response.Write "Hola"
Else
Response.Write "Hello"
End If

%>

-DNG
 
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I have tried to set this up but am getting an error message:

Code: 
<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT">
<%
if (Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE") = "se") Then
Response.Redirect("[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.domain.com/se/home.asp")[/URL]
Elseif (Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE") = "de") Then
Response.Redirect("[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.domain.com/de/home.asp")[/URL]
Elseif (Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE") = "en-uk") Then
Response.Redirect("[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.domain.com/uk/home.asp")[/URL]
Elseif (Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE") = "en-us") Then
Response.Redirect("[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.domain.com/us/home.asp")[/URL]
End if
%>


Error message:

Active Server Pages error 'ASP 0221'

Invalid @ Command directive

/ctek_site/index.asp, line 3

The specified 'if (Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE") = "se") Then Response.Redirect("se/home.asp") Elseif (Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE") = "de") Then Response.Redirect("de/home.asp") Elseif (Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE") = "en-uk") Then Response.Redirect("uk/home.asp") Elseif (Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE") = "en-us") Then Response.Redirect("us/home.asp") End if ' option is unknown or invalid.
 
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Thanks,

Now I don't get the error message but it doesn't redirect either.

Any ideas?

Rich
 
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For redirects within a page, setting:

<%
response.buffer = true
%>

at the top of the page can often make things work more smoothly.

 
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