Rules- How can I make a variable/token with the site URL minus the language path?

Question

I have created a rule set to handle login redirects for users on my site. If a user logs in from a page that is set to a different language from that user's language (example: English user logs in on a Japanese page), the user will be redirected to a page with the same language as the page upon which they logged in (in the example, a Japanese page).

To fix this, I want to force my redirects to be the appropriate language path based on the user language.

However, the [site:url] replacement pattern which is provided by Rules includes the language path (because it is the front page).

My front page is https://mysite.com/en.

I want to create a new variable which is the URL of my site minus the language path: https://mysite.com/

I tried creating a variable of type text with a value of

<?php substr("[site:url]", 0, -2); ?>

but for some reason this just gives me the value of [site:url]; it appears that the substr() function has no effect. I don't understand PHP very well so I could be missing something obvious-- I just want to remove the last two characters of the [site:url]. How can I do this within Rules?

Answer 1

Independent from Drupal 6 and 7, <?php url('<front>'); ?> should give the path to the front page unless you specify a language. See url()

<?php
global $user;
$user->language;
?>

You can get the logged in user's prefered language from above snippet.

Answer 2

Try this:

<?php substr(url('<front>', array('absolute' => TRUE)), 0, -2); ?>