Introduction.

This plugin provides a simple to use tag, to display flags for countrys of the languages your application supports, that when clicked, changes the language of your application using the i18n support provided by Grails.

Provided by the plugin:

• Flag icons 16x16 pixels from FamFamFam

• Installation
• Description
• ScreenShots
• Tips&tricks

Usage.

Add the next tag to your gsp.

<langs:selector langs="es, en, en_US, pt_BR, pt, pt_pt"/>
<langs:selector langs="es, en, en_US, pt_BR, pt, pt_pt" 
       url="${createLink(action:'list', controller:'libro', params:[paramun:123]) }"/>
<langs:selector langs="es, en, en_US, pt_BR, pt, pt_pt" default="es" />

The required attribute "langs" tells the plugin which flags to show, if pay attention the values are the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code for languages and a countrys, also are the same of the suffixes of "message properties" files.

Optionally if you want to redirect always to the same url when changing the language (this is helpful to avoid doing a GET with post data) use the url parameter, and this provided url will be used instead of the actual one.

From version 0.3 you optionally can set the default flag to be highlighted when the user enters for first time in the app or has a new fresh session.

This tag includes the css stylesheet that helps you identify which language is selected.

<langs:resources ></langs:resources>

Configuration.

Optionally you can add this property to the Config.groovy to tell the plugin which flag display for the language. By default has the value shown below. Its a map that in the keys are the languages and the values are the countrys.

com.mfelix.grails.plugins.langSelector.lang.flags = ["es":"es",
	                    "en":"gb",
	                    "fr":"fr",
	                    "da":"dk",
	                    "de":"de",
	                    "it":"it",
	                    "ja":"jp",
	                    "nl":"nl",
	                    "ru":"ru",
	                    "th":"th",
	                    "zh":"cn",
	                    "pt":"pt"
	                    ]

Tips&tricks

1. The i18n support its executed in a filter attached to all controllers in your app, so in order to get it working in "/", you have to point it to a controller in the urlMappings file.

"/"(controller:"oneController", action:"oneAction")

2. Some versions of Grails when create an app generate the english message properties without the corresponding suffix, this prevents the i18n support to work properly. You should change the name of the file to get it working, this way: messages.properties -> messages_en.properties

Plugin history

• 2011-02-02 - version 0.3
• Added "default" param, to set the default flag to be highlighted.
• 2010-10-20 - version 0.2
• Fixed bug in generated url when it had params, added url param
• 2010-09-04 - version 0.1.1
• Bug fixed - some missing trim()
• 2010-08-27 - version 0.1
• First release