I have a select option with two languages english and irish, and when the user selects one i use the onchange function to change the session language variable to the new language but the new lanaguage doesn't take effect until i refresh the current page or go to another page on the site, anyone any ideas? Is AJAX a bad idea to use for such a function?
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Is the session variable a server-side variable, or do you have a JavaScript variable?
If it's server-side, Ajax would make sense, but you'll still need to update the current page.
Its in PHP so its a server side variable, can i add a window.location.href or will that defeat the whole prpose of having the AJAX change the language?
Yes, that would defeat the purpose. Is it necessary for it to take effect immediately? You could just trigger a page reload when the language is changed.
The reload is only needed when the user selects a different language then the defaulted one!?
That depends on the content. If there's a lot of content to change on the current page, perhaps it makes more sense to reload the page. If there's minimal content or you want to avoid a page reload at all costs, then you can change the content using JavaScript, though you would need Ajax to change the session variable.
Yup, its all the text content on the page the user is on has to be changed! So a page reload is needed.
Strictly speaking, you could just use JavaScript to change the content, but it would mean extra work while a simple reload would be just as good.
Not sure what language you're using to implement your solution, but if you want to change the language/culture in ASP.NET you must do a full page post back to the server. It has to reset all of the controls with the new settings and the only way you can do this is to reload the whole page.
I tried doing this with Ajax once...I always have to learn the hard way.
Not only was only a section of my page updated with the new language....but things get pretty messed up because of the cultural settings....when your control is supplying your page with English - US cultural information but the culture has been set to something like French - CA........well you can image what happens (especially with dates).
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