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Hello

I like to have friendly language names in the language links in multilanguage project in PHPMaker 2024. Eg instead of "en-US" and "it-IT", I simply like something like "english" and "italiano" (or en and it).

Renaming the language file from eg "italian.it-IT.xml" to "italian.it.xml" or "italian.xml" does not work as the language file is not loaded with this naming pattern.

What is the missing step please?

Thank you
Patrick

The language ID in the file name is required, do not remove it, read Language Files. The file name is not the display name of the language links.

Yes it seems so, but then, how do I customize the language link name to a friendly language name different from the id.

By default the Lanuguage class uses: (Note that it is JsRender Template)
'{{for languages}}<li class="nav-item"><a class="nav-link{{if selected}} active{{/if}} ew-tooltip" title="{{>desc}}" data-ew-action="language" data-language="{{:id}}">{{:id}}</a></li>{{/for}}'

You may use Language_Load server event to set your own, e.g.

$this->Template = '{{for languages}}...your template...{{/for}}';

Also read [Selecting Languages](Selecting Languages):
If you want to customize the text of the links, you can customzie the file C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\PHPMaker2024\languages\languages.xml.

that works, thank you.