Get web browser preferred language with PHP $_SERVER variables HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE
HTTP Language headers.
In php the way to get the language information sent by browser is with server reserved variables.
Which output (in my browsers):
- ca,en-us;q=0.7,en;q=0.3 in Mozilla Firefox 13.0.1
- es-ES in Internet Explorer 9 64b
- ca-ES,ca;q=0.8 in Google Chrome 20.0
The "q-value" (when it's shown in a value range between 0-1) indicates the percent that the browser prefer this language. If it's not provided, we asume is 1 (maximum).
How to get the preferred language?
Here's a simple function I've coded to get the preferred language according q-value in ISO 639-1 format:
$hi_quof)
{
$hi_code = substr($codelang,0,2);
$hi_quof = $quoficient;
}
}
return $hi_code;
}
echo "Your browser preferred language is: ".GetLanguageCodeISO6391();
?>