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Language conditional inside blog's post template

Hi, I am running a multilingual blog and I would like to avoid making separated posts for each lang. I'd rather prefer to have one post template and have those options together and then make some kind of conditional to filter using $lang variable. Any idea? — Thanks!

<h2><perch:blog id="postTitle-es" type="text" label="Title (spanish)" required="true" /></h2>
<h2><perch:blog id="postTitle-en" type="text" label="Title (english)" required="true" /></h2>
<h2><perch:blog id="postTitle-fr" type="text" label="Title (french)" required="true" /></h2>
Raul Serrano

Raul Serrano 0 points

  • 5 years ago
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

5 years ago

Yes, that should work fine. What problem are you hitting?
Raul Serrano

Raul Serrano 0 points

5 years ago

I don't know how to show only current $lang content Drew. Thanks for fast reply
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

5 years ago 
<h2>
<perch:if id="lang" value="es"><perch:blog id="postTitle-es" type="text" label="Title (spanish)" required="true" /></perch:if>
<perch:if id="lang" value="en"><perch:blog id="postTitle-en" type="text" label="Title (english)" required="true" /></perch:if>
<perch:if id="lang" value="fr"><perch:blog id="postTitle-fr" type="text" label="Title (french)" required="true" /></perch:if>
</h2>
Raul Serrano

Raul Serrano 0 points

5 years ago

It appears empty after saving blog post...

"




"
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

5 years ago

Are you passing lang into the template?
Raul Serrano

Raul Serrano 0 points

5 years ago

I put this on post.php

<?php
    session_start();
    if (isset($_GET['lang']) && $_GET['lang']!='') {
      $lang = $_GET['lang'];
      $_SESSION['lang'] = $lang;
    }elseif (isset($_SESSION['lang'])){
      $lang = $_SESSION['lang'];
    }else{
      // default language
      $lang = 'es';
    }
?>

Should I add something like this?

<?php
    PerchSystem::set_var('lang', $lang);
    perch_blog_custom('My region', array(
        'template'=>'post.html'
    ));
?>
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

5 years ago

Yes, looks just right. What's happening?
Raul Serrano

Raul Serrano 0 points

5 years ago

Yes it works, should I take out 'My region'?
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

5 years ago

Yes, that part isn't correct.
Raul Serrano

Raul Serrano 0 points

5 years ago 
<?php PerchSystem::set_var('lang', $lang);
perch_blog_custom(array(
'template'=>'post.html'
)); ?>

Thats better?
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

4 years ago

Yes - is something not working?
Raul Serrano

Raul Serrano 0 points

4 years ago

It works, thanks Drew!