Question

I am willing to create a custom language switcher that will print out only the language which is not currently active. I don’t know how to link to the front page of a specific language or to translation of the current content/path.

Below is my code with the problem I’m facing:

global $language; 
 $lang=$language->language;
 $variables['languagelink']=''; 

 if($lang=="en") {
    $variables['languagelink']=l(t("Arabic"),'HERE I DONT KNOW HOW TO LINK TO ARABIC FRONT PAGE OR THE TRANSLATION OF THE CURRENT CONTENT');
 } elseif($lang=="ar") {
    $variables['languagelink']=l(t("English"),'HERE I DONT KNOW HOW TO LINK TO ENGLISH FRONT PAGE OR THE TRANSLATION OF THE CURRENT CONTENT');
 } 

Answer 1

best way to do that is to hide the current language link with CSS. Usually the body has a specific class like language-en or i18n-en etc. using that, build your appropriate css selector to hide the current language link