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I have a question regarding the domain name language negotiation.

I have 3 languages and the following domains:

  • de.domain.com
  • en.domain.com
  • fr.domain.com

When I set this as the domains for each language and use the domain name language negotiation everything works as expected.

My problem is that I have an adaptive mobile theme and I have to use following domains for that:

  • m.de.domain.com
  • m.en.domain.com
  • m.fr.domain.com

How can I achieve that those urls point to the correct language (de, en, fr). Now, all point to the default language (de).

Any help?

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  • Just curious - why m prefix? Can't you detect from http headers if user is on mobile? Can't your theme hide things based on actual screen it gets displayed on? – Mołot Aug 20 '13 at 7:54
  • In my oppinion its not a good thing to have different content served from the same url. think about a caching in front of the web server (varnish for example). – megadesk3000 Aug 20 '13 at 8:14
  • That's some valid point all right. On the other hand current mobile devices can usually accept normal page and you can do the most of small-screen logic in CSS with media set to handheld. – Mołot Aug 20 '13 at 8:17
  • That's totally true. But the customer has preferred adaptive over responsive for this project. So i have to deal with that now. Responsive would make my live easier at all ;) – megadesk3000 Aug 20 '13 at 8:26
  • can you make it de.m. instead of m.de.? If it's technically impossible / not easy, it's a shame both mechanisms insist on using first part for detection. – Mołot Aug 20 '13 at 8:31
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Take a look at the Language Negotiation API, specifically hook_language_negotiation_info_alter. With this hook, you can replace the default URL based language negotiation callback function with one that respects the m. prefix.

Something like this should get you started.

function mymodule_language_negotiation_info_alter(&$negotiation_info) {
  // Replace the core function with our own function.
  module_load_include('language', 'inc', 'language.negotiation');
  $negotiation_info[LANGUAGE_NEGOTIATION_URL]['callbacks']['language'] = 'mymodule_from_url';
  $negotiation_info[LANGUAGE_NEGOTIATION_URL]['file'] = drupal_get_path('module', 'mymodule') . '/mymodule.module';
}

function mymodule_from_url($languages) {
    // Your version of locale_language_from_url() that ignores the m. prefix.
}

For reference, the core function that handles language negotiation based on URL is locale_language_from_url.

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  • Thank you zroger. I think this way i can achieve my goal :) – megadesk3000 Aug 21 '13 at 7:22

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