Language selection based on ip address

[jennifereromi]

Hi everyone,

I was wondering if anyone knows how I can show different languages based visitors' ip addresses. I searched around the joomla files and cannot find the place where the language detection takes place. I searched the forum without much results either. I'd really appreciate if someone could point me to the right direction.

Thank you very much.
Jennifer

[infograf768]

Joomla core (in multilanguage and with the parameter set in the languagefilter plugin) can look for the default Browser language and directs to this language the first time one displays the site, but not the IP address. This would need a specific extension.

The code looking for the browser language is JLanguageHelper::detectLanguage() in the languagefilter plugin.

One would have to override this with a new function to detect IPs, thus creating a new language filter plugin at this effect.