--- title: "Joomla 2.5 Templates – $this->language" description: "In our last few tutorials, we have covered the $this variable in Joomla 2.5 templates. We will continue focusing on $this, and this time examining the following code: <html..." url: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/joomla/joomla-2-5/this-language/ date: 2012-07-19 modified: 2021-08-16 author: "Brad Markle" categories: ["Joomla", "Joomla 2.5"] tags: ["Joomla v2.5"] type: post lang: en --- # Joomla 2.5 Templates – $this->language In our last few tutorials, we have covered the [$this variable in Joomla 2.5 templates](/support/edu/joomla/joomla-2-5/this/). We will continue focusing on $this, and this time examining the following code: The output of the above PHP code results in the following code being shown in our pages: If you are familiar with PHP, you can see that the value of **$this->language** is *en-gb*. en-gb stands for the English language as used in the United Kingdom. If we [change the language in Joomla 2.5](/support/edu/joomla/joomla-2-5/change-site-language/) to Spanish, you can see that the value of $this->language changes to es-es: