{"id":1590,"date":"2012-07-19T14:43:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T14:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2012\/07\/19\/this-language\/"},"modified":"2021-08-16T23:39:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T03:39:12","slug":"this-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-2-5\/this-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Joomla 2.5 Templates – $this->language"},"content":{"rendered":"

In our last few tutorials, we have covered the $this variable in Joomla 2.5 templates<\/a>. We will continue focusing on $this, and this time examining the following code:<\/p>\n

<html xmlns=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\" xml:lang=\"<?php echo $this->language<\/span>; ?>\" lang=\"<?php echo $this->language<\/span>; ?>\" dir=\"<?php echo $this->direction; ?>\" ><\/pre>\n
The output of the above PHP code results in the following code being shown in our pages:<\/p>\n
<html xmlns=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\" xml:lang=\"en-gb<\/span>\" lang=\"en-gb<\/span>\" dir=\"ltr\" ><\/pre>\n
If you are familiar with PHP, you can see that the value of $this->language<\/strong> is en-gb<\/em>. en-gb stands for the English language as used in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n
If we change the language in Joomla 2.5<\/a> to Spanish, you can see that the value of $this->language changes to es-es:<\/p>\n
<html xmlns=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\" xml:lang=\"es-es<\/span>\" lang=\"es-es<\/span>\" dir=\"ltr\" ><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In our last few tutorials, we have covered the $this variable in Joomla 2.5 templates. 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