Custom links to switch language in Drupal 6

Question

In my case, I wanted to print the language switch links directly in page.tpl.php, for example with:

<a href="what_to_put_here">English</a>
<a href="what_to_put_here">Deutsch</a>

How can I accomplish this without using the "Language switcher" block? I checked all the modules that comes with the Internationalization project, but I didn't see any hook_block() implementation that outputs the language switcher block.

UPDATED: I wanted something like: This site is on russian, english and kazakh languages. This cannot be done with language switcher block.

i've tried this way in page.tpl.php:

<?php
$way = drupal_is_front_page() ? '<front>' : $_GET['q'];
print '<span id="switcher">'. 'на ' . l('русском', $way). ', ' . l('казахском', 'kk/'.$way). ' и ' . l('английском', 'en/'.$way) .'</span>';
?>

Default language is russian - mysite.com, when i switch to an english - mysite.com/en, as you see it adds prefix 'en'. But now if i want to switch on kazakh language - mysite.com/kk from english the link looks mysite.com/en/kk == it adds en to my URL. How to make this correctly?

Answer 1

What doesn't work for you with the language switcher ?
If you want to reproduce its behavior, have a look at its code and try to do something equal.

Here is some code:

$path = drupal_is_front_page() ? '<front>' : $_GET['q'];
$languages = language_list('enabled');
$links = array();
foreach ($languages[1] as $language) {
  $links[$language->language] = array(
    'href' => $path, 
    'title' => $language->native, 
    'language' => $language, 
    'attributes' => array('class' => 'language-link'),
  );
}
drupal_alter('translation_link', $links, $path);
//dpm($links);

foreach ($links as $link) {
  echo t('Link for ') . l($link['title'], $link['href']) . '<br />';
}

Answer 2

Use the language option of the l() function. Same URL, different language and Drupal should take care of it for you:

<?php
$way = drupal_is_front_page() ? '<front>' : $_GET['q'];
$languages = language_list();
print l('slovak', $way, array('language' => $languages['sk'])) . ', '
  . l('czech', $way, array('language' => $languages['cs'])) . ', '
  . l('english', $way, array('language' => $languages['en']));
?>