Set language variable using html/js - javascript

I am currently creating on online version of a magazine. The magazine is made up of a series of html5 pages. On each page, the user is provided the choice to choose language,"En/Fr".
I would like to know how i can set the language to the chosen one for the whole magazine. For example, suppose I am on page1 and 1 choose lang 'Fr', the other pages too should be loading in Fr. And now, on page20 I choose lang 'En', all the pages should load in 'En'.
Is that possible using html/js??
Could you provide me with a solution.
Thanks

This solution can't be achieved using pure javascript and html, as the variables will be lost when the page is reloaded.
You may like to investigate a solution using cookies.
For your example.
To set language:
$.cookie("language", "fr");
To read language from cookie:
$.cookie("language")
To delete language:
$.cookie("language", null);

There are a few options: using a cookie, using sessionStorage or localStorage, and including language identifier in URLs (path part or query part). There is insufficient information (no info about server-side technology used etc.) to suggest a particular approach. In any case, if you want the pages to be found via search engines, each language version should have a URL of its own.

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creating multi lingual website

I am trying to figure out how to develop a multi-lingual website. My background in HTML, JS, CSS is not that broad (I have started only a week ago), therefore my understanding of this may not be the best.
For our example we will be creating three language mutations:
English (main one)
Spanish
French.
Here is what I have come across when I started searching for this under uncle Google.
The longest solution I can imagine: Create three folders named en, es, fr. These will contain the replica of the original webpage (e.g. index.html), but will be translated to respective language. Then on the top panel, you will have a button which upon clicking it will redirect used to a different folder (link is hard coded here). This solution is feasible if we are dealing with very small websites (with a few pages).
Second option I have found, was using WordPress plugins (found quite a few of those). Unfortunately, this solution is not viable, as I am not using wordpress to create a website.
Next option (which I believe would be the best), is to have one page for all language mutations, but instead of real text, you would insert some attribute with the key, which will determine what phrase should be inserted here. It could look like data-toTranslate('sTitle') (making this up). The question now would be, where would you store your texts? One option would be into a database, but I have not worked with them (under websites), therefore I would prefer something like a text file / csv file / or something like this. The problem I have with this solution (except the fact that I don't know how to do it yet :) ) is that I am not quite sure how website would react to this in terms of loading time. Maybe this is the best solution for a developer, yet the worst for the website?
Any comments, links or suggestions which would point me in the right direction would be more than welcome!
EDIT: as this question may seem too broad, I will try to trim it a bit down.
As I believe the option number three would be the best, then I would like to know the following things:
1) What do I need to create when I want to store simple key - value pairs (such as in this translation)? If I were in C#, I would e.g. create either simple XML or CSV file and I would parse it during runtime.
2) Can I achieve this with a simple JavaScript, or do I need to create some specific controllers / directives with AngularJS?
Create the english version of the website statically, as this is the main language. You should have a separate ID for every text element (and don't use obe word ids such as "a" "b" etc., so you can easily fibd them later.
Have a file on your server (text file works too) with the ids of fhe text tags, and the text in a format like
welcome-text | ["Welcome to the website" in Spanish]
-------------
Etc...
(Note: yoh need to store the translated sentences, but I don't know Spanish nor France)
Name your file to something like Spanish.txt.
When the page loads, download this file with javascript trough AJAX (this is where the static english version kicks in as a fallback), loop trough the text file and set the texts to the translated version.
You can of course use PHP with MysQL too, but I thought it is a bit overkill for 2 languages.
And yes, this can be done with 100% pure javascript, not even JQuery is required.
I normally using PHP to handle this multilingual. When every moment user view the website, it will set the default language to ENG. But, when the user select other language as the website display language, the website will reload and the PHP code will call the respective language folder to display all the selected language on the website. So, I think you should having few language folder, then dynamic calling each of the folder to get the keywords words and display it.

Search Engine Result Page Url includes Search Value

I am trying to create a new language translator engine (only two language available a<->b) its just to learn PHP & Mysql etc. a little bit better. Now I have a search form where a user can enter a value and a php code which check if that word is available to give the result in an antoher fix language. But a user enter a value ex. "food" and submit it then the url should look like that
https://domain.com/search/food
How is it possible to get a permalink without using a CMS. I only want to do all as static page and PHP, MYSQL AND JS nothing more if possible
I see that already on a few pages but not sure how to do that and hope you could give me only a few advices.
Unless you want to store a file for every single possible word, this isn't possible with straight PHP, you will have to leverage your server's functionality.
Assuming you are using Apache, check the documentation for mod_rewrite.
But, you could also simply use URL parameters, which is easier and will act pretty much the same in practice. e.g.:
https://domain.com/search.php?term=food
PHP:
$_GET['term'] // => "food"
http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.get.php

jQuery 18n plugin

I've got a jQuery i18n plugin init:
jQuery.i18n.properties({
name : 'appsConstants',
path : '/gadgets/',
mode : 'both',
language : 'en'
});
How to take out the language variable into browser line like a parameter?
You have several options here:
Read the language from the URL path or an URL query parameter by parsing window.location
Set the language in a cookie
Generate your init Javascript dynamically on the server and set the language there (storing it in the session on the server).
This article from Scott Hanselman talks about globalization (cultures/locale)
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/GlobalizationInternationalizationAndLocalizationInASPNETMVC3JavaScriptAndJQueryPart1.aspx
I've used that for making my jQuery aware of the users culture (for use with a datepicker amongst others) I also downloaded the i18n jQuery plugin and registered that.
I went with the "Slightly Less Cheesy - Meta Tag" solution for "detecting" locale and registered a
<meta name="accept-language" content="en-US">
in the head section, then I could utilize that tag in my jQuery to figure out what locale/language to use.
The article is slightly outdated so some of the javascript needs an update here and there as an example Globalization.js has changed from $.global. to Globalize.
Bits and pieces like that you need to update to get it all working.

Get access to Stackoverflow's auto-suggest tagging system?

Is there anyway to get access to stackoverflow's awesome tagging system? I would like to borrow Stack's awesome auto-suggest and tag mini-explanation boxes for my own site. Obviously, I can use the jQuery UI auto-suggest for tags but I would really like to also include the cool little tag descriptions as well. If not, can someone tell me where all these explanation/descriptions came from so that I can implement a similar system?
tageditornew.js
Line 308:
$.get("/filter/tags", {q: a,newstyle: !0}, "json").done(function(c) {
C["t_" + a] = c;
StackExchange.helpers.removeSpinner();
b(c)
})
This might help you out!
It turns out that,
the API url is this:
https://stackoverflow.com/filter/tags?q=STRING&newstyle=BOOLEAN
q - Query text.
newstyle - Require new style or not. Result in new style will be returned in JSON with additional information such as synonyms and excerpt.
DEMO: http://jsfiddle.net/DerekL/bXXb7/ (with Cross Domain Requests jQuery plguin)
For example:
https://stackoverflow.com/filter/tags?q=htm
would give you:
"html|99829\nhtml5|16359\nxhtml|4143\nhtml-parsing|1461\nhtml-lists|1328\nhtml5-video|949"
where 99829 is the amount of questions. It took me 15 minutes looking at the source code to find out this api. -_-"
Putting in javascript in new style gives you this: here
[{"Name":"javascript","Synonyms":"classic-javascript|javascript-execution","Count":223223,"Excerpt":"JavaScript is a dynamic language commonly used for scripting in web browsers. It is NOT the same as Java. Use this tag for questions regarding ECMAScript and its dialects/implementations (excluding ActionScript and JScript). If a framework or library, such as jQuery, is used, include that tag as well. Questions that don't include a framework/library tag, such as jQuery, implies that the question requires a pure JavaScript answer."},{"Name":"javascript-events","Synonyms":"javascript-event","Count":5707,"Excerpt":"Creating and handling JavaScript events inline in HTML or through a script."},{"Name":"facebook-javascript-sdk","Synonyms":"","Count":992,"Excerpt":"Facebook's JavaScript SDK provides a rich set of client-side functionality for accessing Facebook's server-side API calls. These include all of the features of the REST API, Graph API, and Dialogs."},{"Name":"javascript-library","Synonyms":"","Count":675,"Excerpt":"A JavaScript library is a library of pre-written JavaScript which allows for easier development of JavaScript-based applications, especially for AJAX and other web-centric technologies."},{"Name":"javascript-framework","Synonyms":"","Count":563,"Excerpt":"A JavaScript framework is a library of pre-written JavaScript which allows for easier development of JavaScript-based applications, especially for AJAX and other web-centric technologies."},{"Name":"unobtrusive-javascript","Synonyms":"","Count":340,"Excerpt":"Unobtrusive JavaScript is a general approach to the use of JavaScript in web pages."}]
What you can get from there:
All tags start with javascript
Synonyms
Tag counts
Nice tag descriptions
If you're looking for high-level logic, in a nutshell it's just a custom auto-complete that's blazing-fast.
Whenever you type a tag (i.e. a new word or one separated by a space from previous tags), an AJAX request would be made to the server with a JSON object which is then interpreted by the client-side script and presented in the usable layout.
Comparing the autocomplete JSON objects for letter "h" and word "html" should give you enough insight into how this particular implementation works (if prompted, these can be opened with any text editor).
On a somewhat unrelated note: the autocomplete responses have to be fast. Depending on the complexity of the data autocomplete is run against, you may find how IMDb magic search works intriguing.
Update:
Seeing your comment about accessing the content of the tag library, this may in fact be more of a meta question. I struggle to think of a scenario where using an API if any or just the tag library from an external resource would be beneficial to SO - however content here is provided under Creative Commons so you may be able to use it with proper attribution. This does not constitute legal advice :)

How to save the input values of an HTML page?

Now, this requirement may seem weird. But i would like to know how to achieve this?
I am having an HTML file, which is having few input box, check box, radio button etc. I would like to retain the changes a user [ actually i ] performs on this page. Like if the user has ticked a checkbox then next time anybody open that file should see that checkbox as ticked.
This thing can be done easily using HTTP cookies. But i don't want to use cookies.
The answer can be as simple as "No you can not do that" :)
Edit
That's the problem with not phrasing the question correctly.
I guess i can't use DB as if i will send my HTML page to someone then he/she will not be able to see my changes. I want my changes to be reflected on other systems also. [ thats the reason i was not going for cookies ]. Other solution what i was thinking was, using FileSystemObject. Any other solution ? again the answer can be "No you can not do that" :D
You could bind the change events of your form elements to an AJAX submit, log the submits to the db and then on any page load grab the latest states from the db for rendering.
Edit
If you want these changes to appear "simultaneously" for other users then you could use jQuery polling to update the page - have the page periodically poll the server for the latest state.
Having said that, if you give them a server link and not the actual file they will see your db changes.
However, it sounds like you want to actually send the file (not send someone to a web server) in which case you could do something like one of these approaches:
Your PHP/whatever file (can possibly even do this with javascript) outputs a HTML file with appropriate checked="checked", selected="selected", value="blah" etc. You send this file.
Your PHP/whatever file outputs a static reference file. Your HTML file has javascript referencing and using the values stored in this file. You send both of these files around (although value updates only require a changed static reference file).
I sounds like you want to change the actual file using Javascript - this should be rather difficult. Javascript was designed from scratch as a web scripting language and as such it doesn't have any built in file/IO functionality.
What you can do in Javascript is load ActiveX objects and plug ins. How this works depends a lot on which browser you're using. For instance in IE you could load an ActiveX object (written in VB or whatever) that could edit your file:
var fileWriter = new ActiveXObject("My.FileWriter");
fileWriter.Update("myFile.htm", "inputName", "newValue");
You'd have to write your FileWriter utility though.
Alternatively you could use HTML5's new data storage stuff - but then you're still limited on browser.
You need some method to identify the user when he or she visits again. A browser cookie is useful, because it is stored on the user's computer, which serves as identification. The other serious option is to store the user's preferences in a database. This would, at least, require a server-side language. In addition, you need some way to identify the user, such as username, or, less reliably, IP address.
I hear other options may exist in HTML5, but I don't think those can be used seriously at this time. You can read about it here in Offline Web Applications. It seems to me like something very similar in spirit, although much more powerful, than cookies.

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