Detect Browser Language in PHP

Question

I use the following PHP script as index for my website.

This script should include a specific page depending on the browser\'s language (automatically detected).

Answer 1

Quick and simple:

$language = trim(substr( strtok(strtok($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'], ','), ';'), 0, 5));

NOTE: The first language code is what is being used by the browser, the rest are other languages the user has setup in the browser.

Some languages have a region code, eg. en-GB, others just have the language code, eg. sk.

If you just want the language and not the region (eg. en, fr, es, etc.), you can use:

$language =substr($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'], 0, 2);