How to sort languages in language selector?

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What is a way to sort languages in language selector? For example to have the same order, as in panel, or add my order, something like:

<?php return [ 'code' => 'en', 'order' => '1',
2

I don’t think you can?

In the panel, AFAIK they’re ordered alphabetically.

If you want to order them yourself; I think you could solve this with a configuration array containing the language codes in the order you want. If you want to make this sortable to editors, you’ld have to use a panel field for that (e.g. structure).

3

No need to make it sortable in panel. It can be manually giving languages some properties, like 1, 2, 3, and then sorting by them, just need a solution how to give those properties.

4

I’d also suggest to use a sorting array, like described here:

5

I understand I should use ->sortBy(‘something’), but the question is how to give each language this “something” property?

6

As already suggested above, by assigning a sorting number to each language in an array, like in the example in the sorting recipe.

$order = ['en' => 3, 'es' => 1, 'it' => 2, 'de' => 0];
$languages = $kirby->languages()->sortBy( function( $language ) use( $order ) {
  return $order[ $language->code() ];
} );

The order can be stored in the config, for example.

I think I once posted an idea to allow additional fields in the language files, but that has probably gone lost…

7

Thanks a lot, yes, checked it, but was doing a bit wrong, now it works! :slight_smile: