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Language

The language frontend request attribute provides information about the current language of the webpage via the \TYPO3\CMS\Core\Site\Entity\SiteLanguage object.

Example:

$language = $request->getAttribute('language');
$locale = $language->getLocale();

API

class SiteLanguage

Fully qualified name: \TYPO3\CMS\Core\Site\Entity\SiteLanguage

Entity representing a site_language configuration of a site object.

toArray()

Returns the SiteLanguage in an array representation for e.g. the usage in TypoScript.

returntype: array

getLanguageId()

returntype: int

getLocale()

returntype: string

getBase()

returntype: Psr\Http\Message\UriInterface

getTitle()

returntype: string

getNavigationTitle()

returntype: string

getWebsiteTitle()

returntype: string

getFlagIdentifier()

returntype: string

getTypo3Language()

returntype: string

getTwoLetterIsoCode()

Returns the ISO-639-1 language ISO code

returntype: string

getHreflang()

Returns the RFC 1766 / 3066 language tag

returntype: string

getDirection()

Returns the language direction

returntype: string

enabled()

Returns true if the language is available in frontend usage

returntype: bool

isEnabled()

Helper so fluid can work with this as well.

returntype: bool

getFallbackType()

returntype: string

getFallbackLanguageIds()

returntype: array