Add language menu to the main menu

Question

I have menu structure like this:

Home | About | Products

if a user is currently on English page then I need like this:

Home | About | Products | Swedish

and if a user is currently on Swedish language then it will show like:

Home | About | Products | English

1: So how can I add a menu switcher link to the main menu which shows only one language link at a time? 2: What will be the pate for each of the language in the path field while adding a menu link.

Answer 1

You have two ways of doing this, one is to use HTML/CSS to position the language switcher block in the menu, probably a little harder to do with a variable length menu unless you right align it.

Two would be to add the language switcher to the menu, you can use something like http://www.liquidcms.ca/how-to-language-switcher-menu-item to do that.

Answer 2

Menu per language module will have the option

This module enables you to have an clear overview per language what the menu entries are. In Drupal all of these links are on the same page and thus it is not clear in which language it is and the menus will grow very big in time aswell.

Answer 3

I have solved my problem with the help of a friend. I have created a list of two menus lists using menu-block module. One set of English menus and one set of Swedish menus in the following order.

Home | About | Products | Svenska

and for Swedish

Hem | OM | Produkter | English

After creating the menus , I was unable to provide URL or link to a node (/node/3) OR language (/?language=en) in the path field while creating the link item.

In my case if I change the language such as (http//mysite.com/?q=en) to (http//mysite.com/?q=sv) the above created Swedish menu-block appears. As Swedish menu-block was enabled on Swedish language and English on English menu-block. After that I change one of the hook available in the main theme to my requirement.

I used yourtheme_menu_link() hook in template.php file. Under the set of if statements I added this block.

    if ($element['#original_link']['mlid'] == 2662) {
    global $language;
     $lang = $language;
     $lang->prefix = "en";
    $special_link = '<a href="' . url('<front>', array('language' => $lang)) . '">English</a>';
} else if ($element['#original_link']['mlid'] == 2675) {
    global $language;
     $lang = $language;
     $lang->prefix = "sv";
    $special_link = '<a href="' . url('<front>', array('language' => $lang)) . '">Svenska</a>';
}

if (at_get_setting('extra_menu_classes', $theme_name) == 1 && !empty($element['#original_link'])) {
  if (!empty($element['#original_link']['depth'])) {
    $element['#attributes']['class'][] = 'menu-depth-' . $element['#original_link']['depth'];
  }
  if (!empty($element['#original_link']['mlid'])) {
    $element['#attributes']['class'][] = 'menu-item-' . $element['#original_link']['mlid'];
  }
}

Here 2662 and 2675 is the menu item id. This may help if someone need. It solved my problem.