Cannot switch to secondary language

Kirby 3 Solved ✅
1

Hi there,

in my current website project, I have turned on languages at a late stage and now I have the problem that Kirby does not recognize/understand that I am on a secondary language page and does not switch the language accordingly.

English is my default language and if I go to mysite.com/de it should switch to German, but when I return the current language via $kirby->language()->code(); it returns en still.

When I loop over all the languages, it does show that German is one of them and also correctly show the url as mysite.com/de.

I have added the languages via the Panel and all the content files are correctly renamed from foo.txt to foo.en.txt.

My language files look like this:

<?php

return [
    'code' => 'de',
    'default' => false,
    'direction' => 'ltr',
    'locale' => [
        'LC_ALL' => 'de_DE'
    ],
    'name' => 'Deutsch',
    'translations' => [

    ],
    'url' => NULL
];

and

<?php

return [
    'code' => 'en',
    'default' => true,
    'direction' => 'ltr',
    'locale' => [
        'LC_ALL' => 'en_US'
    ],
    'name' => 'English',
    'translations' => [

    ],
    'url' => NULL
];

and I have

'languages' => true

set in my config file.
Why is the German translation not working?

Thanks!

Edit: Started the same discussion in Discord already: Link.

2

But the url as such works fine, so content is shown?

Do you use any routes anywhere?

3

Aaaah, yes. On my way home it just hit me that it might be a routing issue. I had set up some custom routing before. Will look into this and report back. (and yes, the url as such works fine)

4

I just noticed there is already a long thread on Discord. It helps to prevent repeating things if there is always a link for such cross postings.

5

Yes turns out it was routing. :man_facepalming: Sorry for the fuss and thanks for the help.

So, instead of describing the problem here, I should just post a link to the Discord thread? Would this not make the forum really unusable?

6

No, not just a link, but also a link, so that people know this has already been discussed. Otherwise, without this information, you start again at zero, probably asking all the same questions again. Doesn’t make sense.

7

Ok, will keep this in mind (and added the Discord link in the initial post).