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Mastering Drupal 8

You're reading from   Mastering Drupal 8 An advanced guide to building and maintaining Drupal websites

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785885976
Length 456 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Chaz Chumley Chaz Chumley
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Preface 1. Developer Workflow FREE CHAPTER 2. Site Configuration 3. Managing Users, Roles, and Permissions 4. Content Types, Taxonomy, and Comment Types 5. Working with Blocks 6. Content Authoring, HTML5, and Media 7. Understanding Views 8. Theming Essentials 9. Working with Twig 10. Extending Drupal 11. Working with Forms and the Form API 12. RESTful Services 13. Multilingual Capabilities 14. Configuration Management 15. Site Migration 16. Debugging and Profiling

Working with language switching blocks

The Language module provides a block that can be used to switch the current interface and content language. By default, the language switching block allows the user to change to any language present in the system, but this can also be configured to restrict the options to specific languages. If the checkbox for Customize Content language detection has been selected, you must select whether the block uses the interface or content configuration.

Language switcher block configuration

The block will output each language translated into the target language. For example, Spanish is output as Español no matter which language the user is currently in. The link for each language is generated using the first enabled detection method that alters the URL. This means that only URL and Session provide links. For example, if URL is placed first, the...

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