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Hi,

i put a java menu to my page and it worked out quiet well.
Unfortunately i am totally unable to get language variables in the .js file to support my bilingual site.

I'm calling the scripts in includes/my_header.php and the menu is read from a file called custom.js, entries looking like this:

addMainItem("forums.html","Forum",145,"center","","Zu den Foren",0,0,"");

defineSubmenuProperties(150,"left","left",0,0);

addSubmenuItem("forum-cat1.html","Allgemeines","","");
addSubmenuItem("forum-cat2.html","Technik","","");
addSubmenuItem("forum-cat3.html","Links & Fun","","");

Have you tried setting up language definations in the js file? Maybe add a small section at the top with your language definitions.

<?php

// Some language for the menu
define("_ALLGEMEINES","Allgemeines");
define("_TECHNIK","Technik");
define("_LINKSFUN","Links & Fun");

?>

then the rest of the js file here..........

addMainItem("forums.html","Forum",145,"center","","Zu den Foren",0,0,"");

defineSubmenuProperties(150,"left","left",0,0);

addSubmenuItem("forum-cat1.html",""._ALLGEMEINES."","","");
addSubmenuItem("forum-cat2.html",""._TECHNIK."","","");
addSubmenuItem("forum-cat3.html",""._LINKSFUN."","","");

Thanks.

I thought about that , too. But however i store the different language strings, i still need to branch the code at my_header-level...
Simplest would be i think to have a german (default) custom.js and an english custom_en.js.
But i can't find a variable to use in the my_header file, $language and $currentlang are empty at that point. I thought about reading the cookie, but then i will have the same issue with the username i guess.