comp.lang.javascript archive
Re: Moving to a modified URL
Date: Fri Jul 01 2005 - 04:36:01 CEST
"alu" <none@none.com> wrote in
> "Normand Peladeau" <peladeau@see_our_domain.com> wrote
>
> > I would like to create a link on a web page that will call a script and
> jump
> > to an URL similar but slightly different than the current one. I am
doing
> > this to allow people to switch languages. For example, no matter where
> the
> > user is on my web site, if he clicks on the FRENCH button at the top, he
> > will be moved from:
> >
> > http://www.mydomain.com/apage.html
> >
> > to
> >
> > http://www.mydomain.com/fr/apage.html
> >
> > On this French version of the web page, if he clicks on the ENGLISH
> button,
> > he will be moved back to the:
> >
> > http://www.mydomain.com/apage.html
> >
> > Since we have more than 60 pages, we don't want to create 120 links on
> each
> > page. We would prefer to have two scripts, one that will insert a /fr
> after
> > the domain name (to move to the French site), and another one that will
> > remove this /fr in order to move to the English version of this page.
> >
> > Is this something that can be done with JavaScript?
> >
> > Normand P.
>
> ____________________________
Apologies - my previously posted script had a flaw; it toggled languages
regardless of the current page's language. Not good.
Here's a better solution:
_________ in a file http://www.mydomain.com/scripts/language.js :
var loc = document.location.toString();
var english = !(loc.search("/fr/")+1);
function fr(){
if(english){document.location = loc.replace(".com/",".com/fr/")}
}
function eng(){
if(!english){document.location = loc.replace("/fr/","/")}
}
_______________________ test pages:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html><head>
<TITLE>apage</TITLE>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<style>
.lang {
text-decoration: underline;
color:#0000ff;
}
</style>
<script src="scripts/language.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body style="background: #ffffff; margin: 40px; padding: 0px;">
<span class="lang" onClick="eng()">english</span>
<span class="lang" onClick="fr()">french</span>
<br><br>
<br><br>
<!--for testing only-->
<script type="text/javascript">
document.write("This page's address is:<br>" + document.location +
"<br><br>English content? " + english)
</script>
</body>
</html>
________________________________________
-alu
Received on Tue Oct 18 02:50:35 2005