Change homepage's default language
Problem
You have a multi-language site, and started with for example English as primary, and French as secondary language (so the English homepage is example.org/, the French one example.org/fr). Later in the project you want to set French as primary.
Solution
Here is what you can do to redirect the home page ’/’ to the French home page:
- Set page names for both languages for the home page (‘en’ for English, ‘fr’ for French)
- In the LanguageSupportPageNames settings, choose the option “No - Root URL performs a redirect to: /name/“. When you go to the root url ’/’ it will redirect you to ‘/en/’
- Finally, create a module to hook into Session::redirect to force the redirection of the root url to the French translation as follows:
<?php
class LanguageDefault extends WireData implements Module {
/**
* getModuleInfo is a module required by all modules to tell ProcessWire about them
*
* @return array
*
*/
public static function getModuleInfo() {
return array(
'title' => 'LanguageDefault',
'version' => 1,
'summary' => 'A work around to changing the default language.',
'href' => 'https://processwire.com/talk/topic/9322-change-default-language-for-homepage/?p=89717',
'singular' => true,
'autoload' => true,
);
}
/**
* Initialize the module
*
* ProcessWire calls this when the module is loaded. For 'autoload' modules, this will be called
* when ProcessWire's API is ready. As a result, this is a good place to attach hooks.
*
*/
public function init() {
$this->session->addHookBefore('redirect', $this, 'setDefaultLanguage');
// The hook checks whether you are viewing the home page, and whether you are redirecting to the English url, and if so, it changes the url to the French url
}
public function setDefaultLanguage($event) {
if ($this->page->id == 1 && $event->arguments(0) == $this->page->localUrl('default')) {
$event->arguments(0, $this->page->localUrl('fr'));
}
}
}