Question

I have made a website that has 2 WordPress installs one for English language and one for Irish language. They are identical setups with same categories, page names etc.

I have ‘English | Irish’ links in my header on each page.

When you are on the english page and you click the ‘irish’ link at top I would like it to take you to the same page but on the Irish site.

The link structure is shown below:

http://mysite.com/english/about

http://mysite.com/irish/about

So I really only need ‘english’ in the url to be replaced by ‘irish’

Answer 1

Their are standard wordpress plugins that handle multi-language issue’s for you. But if you whant to stay with you choise this script does exactly what you asked.

$url = 'http://www.mysite.com/english/about/me/test';

$parsedUrl = parse_url($url);
$path_parts = explode("/",$parsedUrl[path]);

$newUrl = $parsedUrl[scheme] . "://" . $parsedUrl[host];
foreach($path_parts as $key =>$part){
    if($key == "1"){
        if($part == "english") $newUrl .= "/irish";
        else $newUrl .= "/english";
    } elseif($key > "1"){
        $newUrl .= "/" . $part;
    }
}

echo "Old: ". $url . "<br />New: " .$newUrl;