PHP "hello" in different languages ???

[j4mes_bond25]

I've been trying to display a simple & short message in viewer's own language for which I'm using the following script, right at the top of their screen i.e. just above the banner (in my website on: members.lycos.co.uk/darsh25/ .................. select "contact.php"

Although, in my browser, this script identifies that my browser being set to "English" & hence displays "Hello", as it can be seen from:

<?php

function lixlpixel_get_env_var($Var)
{
     if(empty($GLOBALS[$Var]))
     {
         $GLOBALS[$Var]=(!empty($GLOBALS['_SERVER'][$Var]))?
         $GLOBALS['_SERVER'][$Var] : (!empty($GLOBALS['HTTP_SERVER_VARS'][$Var])) ? $GLOBALS['HTTP_SERVER_VARS'][$Var]:'';
     }
}

function lixlpixel_detect_lang()
{
     // Detect HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE & HTTP_USER_AGENT.
     lixlpixel_get_env_var('HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE');
     lixlpixel_get_env_var('HTTP_USER_AGENT');

     $_AL=strtolower($GLOBALS['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE']);
     $_UA=strtolower($GLOBALS['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
  
     // Try to detect Primary language if several languages are accepted.
     foreach($GLOBALS['_LANG'] as $K)
     {
         if(strpos($_AL, $K)===0)
         return $K;
     }
  
     // Try to detect any language if not yet detected.
     foreach($GLOBALS['_LANG'] as $K)
     {
         if(strpos($_AL, $K)!==false)
         return $K;
     }
     foreach($GLOBALS['_LANG'] as $K)
     {
         if(preg_match("/[\[\( ]{$K}[;,_\-\)]/",$_UA))
         return $K;
     }

     // Return default language if language is not yet detected.
     return $GLOBALS['_DLANG'];
}

// Define default language.
$GLOBALS['_DLANG']='en';

// Define all available languages.
// WARNING: uncomment all available languages

$GLOBALS['_LANG'] = array(
'af', // afrikaans.
'ar', // arabic.
'bg', // bulgarian.
'ca', // catalan.
'cs', // czech.
'da', // danish.
'de', // german.
'el', // greek.
'en', // english.
'es', // spanish.
'et', // estonian.
'fi', // finnish.
'fr', // french.
'gl', // galician.
'he', // hebrew.
'hi', // hindi.
'hr', // croatian.
'hu', // hungarian.
'id', // indonesian.
'it', // italian.
'ja', // japanese.
'ko', // korean.
'ka', // georgian.
'lt', // lithuanian.
'lv', // latvian.
'ms', // malay.
'nl', // dutch.
'no', // norwegian.
'pl', // polish.
'pt', // portuguese.
'ro', // romanian.
'ru', // russian.
'sk', // slovak.
'sl', // slovenian.
'sq', // albanian.
'sr', // serbian.
'sv', // swedish.
'th', // thai.
'tr', // turkish.
'uk', // ukrainian.
'zh' // chinese.
);

// Redirect to the correct location.

//header('location: http://www.your_site.com/index_'.lixlpixel_detect_lang().'.php'); // Example Implementation

if ($GLOBALS['_LANG'] = 'en') {
echo '<span class="colorTextRed">"Hello"';
} 
else if ($GLOBALS['_LANG'] = 'fr') {
echo '<span class="colorTextRed">"Bonjour"';
}
else {
echo '<span class="colorTextRed">"Hello"';
}

//echo '<span class="colorTextRed">The Language detected is: '.lixlpixel_detect_lang(); // For Demonstration
?>

I managed to get this script from somewhere over the Internet, however, I added "if.....else" right at the end, since I want this script identify the browser language (or something like that) & then based on the language identified, I wish to simply display the equivalent of "Hello" in user's own language.

I tried changing my browser's language to French, in order to TEST this script as if it displays "Bonjour" but that didn't work.

Could anyone around help me ???

[Puckdropper]

Have you tried setting the system language to french?

You may want to consult the documentation on your language detect features on php.net. (The comments there are especially helpful.)

[digital-ether]

There isn't only one implementation of language in HTTP Headers, and Language is Optional.

In addition to accept-language theres also content-language, which isn't predefined in php.
Language can also be appended to the content-encoding header.

Different browsers may prefer different ways of implementing http 1.0 and 1.1.
What I would do is download a "network protocol sniffer" and take a look at the headers being sent back and forth on differnet browsers.

For the purpose of your script, you can easily test it by setting $_SEVER to what ever language you want at the top of the script.
You can also do this for $_GLOBALS if this is where your script retrieves the http accept-language header.

[j4mes_bond25]

Have you tried setting the system language to french?

You may want to consult the documentation on your language detect features on php.net. (The comments there are especially helpful.)

I only changed language through my browser's Tools >> Language >> French. Wouldn't that make the script detecting French language itself ???