Polylang WP plugin: create a language-selector with according flags

[tarifa]

hello dear community, 

 

I have installed Polylang WP plugin for one site see the conceptual view: 

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	|   |        Item 1     | |        Item 2    | |      Item 3    ||     Item 4     | |        Item 5     |      |

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See i have the following languages: [Code] de :: fr :: it ::es :: pt :: eng  [/Code]

so we accordingly need to add flags but its look like funny. Therefore i came up with a sidebar in my theme (twentyseventeen the theme with the parallax-effect), 
and add it to header the following code:

[Code]
<div class="drop-dl">
  <a class="lang-chose" href="#"><img src=""> please now chose the language for the site - we have several ones - just choose now! </a>
  <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
</div>[/Code]

susequently: in the admin page of my site i need to configure at the so called widget-section the display of the language-selector. This is needed to get a good
overview for the user of the site: Therefore i have to set up the Language-Selector to the Sidebar: that task brings up a unsorted Lists from languages.
what comes next: in the next step i add small script and css code to get this work, here is CodePen demo link

furthermore: With this (following) php code, i am trying to have more control over positioning the widget in template.

[Code]if(function_exists('pll_the_languages')){
    pll_the_languages( array( 'show_flags' => 1,'show_names' => 0  ));
}[/Code]

This subsequently should help us to show up the following languages/respectively flags of nations :[Code] de :: fr :: it ::es :: pt :: eng  [/Code]

[Code]<!-- outputs a list of languages names -->
<ul>
<?php pll_the_languages(); ?>
</ul> 
<!-- outputs a flags list (without the according languages names - that is: the names of the nations) -->
<ul>
<?php pll_the_languages( array( 'show_flags' => 1,'show_names' => 0 ) ); ?>
</ul>
<!-- outputs a dropdown list of languages names -->
<?php pll_the_languages( array( 'dropdown' => 1 ) ); ?>[/Code]

[b]question:[/b] how to do this... 

can i display the language and the flag - both!?

[Code]
$translations = pll_the_languages( array( 'raw' => 1 ) );
[/Code]

The above mentioned function will return an array of arrays, one array per language with the following entries in the array:

[id] => language id
[slug] => language code used in urls
[name] => language name
[url] => url of the translation
[flag] => url of the flag
[current_lang] => true if this is the current language, false otherwise

again: any suggestion is welcome Because this solution should go to  work with "Polylang widget"

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

Don't you already have a thread about a VERY similar issue?

[tarifa]

hello dear+ Human.Online. 

 

first of all - many many thanks for the quick reply.  Yes a bit simillar  - but the ohter thread does no contain su much code - and ideas. 

At the moment i am trying to get these poly-lang-things done. 

 

a big big SORRY if there some threads might  seem to be pretty close to each other.  

I encountered - the more i write the more i learn bout the Wordpress-issues. This helps me alot - therefore some days i might have pretty same issues i work on... 

sorry for that.

 

Above all :  i am so glad to be here at this great place - it is such a good thing being here at the forums.. 

 

 

have a great day.