Hi, Regarding language control and Switch B which is giving me hard times: http://getkirby.com/docs/languages/switching-languages The given example only creates valid results in case of existing content (text files) at the target destination. foreach($site->languages() as $language): $site->pag…

What do you mean by invalid? Does it produce an error message? Kirby’s default behavior is to show the content of the default text file if the text file of the non-default language is missing or the fields are empty. You can prevent this behavior if you filter your pages by language (using a custo…

Hi texnixe, Thanks for your response. Let’s say, I have German as default language and I have an English blog entry: http://mydomain.local/en/blog/english-news-entry-1 There is a folder representing this page which is available in English only. 1-blog/02-english-news-entry-1 Inside this folder…

@texnixe [image] texnixe: you could also check if the content file exists for a language How can I do this with the returned url string? This would solve my problem, I guess.

Okay, I found a solution on my own. Did not know, there is an inventory array… It is not documented anywhere as far as I could see… :sweat: <?php // get the current page's inventory $inventory = $site->page()->inventory(); $translatedContents…

You could try this: <nav class="languages" role="navigation'"> <?php foreach($site->languages() as $language): ?> <?php //if($page->content($language->code())->language() == $site->language($language->code())): ?> <?php if(($site->language() != $language)): ?> <span> …

Hi texnixe, Thank you very much for your advice. Your code uses kirby’s API only which I find much better than messing around with URLs stored in arrays. I have to confess that code like $page->content($language->code())->language()->code() is hard to comprehend when learning a new API. I did no…

Come to think of it, you don’t even need the double code … I changed it in the code snippet above.

Maybe your example should be added to the documentation as “Switch C” to help newbies?

I agree, and will take care of that. Edit: Done.

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