A quick question as I'm a little confused by the Translatable documentation. I've been through the forum and various other places but I can't definitively tell if the Translatable module includes automatic language redirection [either based on the users browser language or IP address, whichever is the easiest/most straightforward] ?

ie. French users redirected to the French Translation

Have others achieved this and what's the best approach for setting this up on a Silverstripe website with Translatable installed and about half a dozen languages?

Thanks,
Neil

I have never seen the Translatable module support automatic redirection.

It does support header links of the form <link rel="alternate" (see https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077) that should make Google select the correct language to display...

Probably you would only use it if the homepage is requested without specifying a locale? In that case it should be possible to redirect, off the top of my head and not tested:

For example in a Homepage_Controller:

public function init() {
		...
		if (!isset($_GET['Locale'])) {
			$userLocale = locale_accept_from_http($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE']);

			//use an array to map the userLocale to a Translatable locale, like for instance fr -> fr_FR
			$locale = someMappingArray[$userLocale];

			$this->redirect('/?Locale=' . $locale);
		}

Thanks for the quick reply. I'll play around and see if this works. Anyone else done this before or got any other ideas?
Thanks

I'm going to use a simple browser language redirect script instead - placing it onto my homepage /home and having a duplicate homepage, without this javascript on it, at /en (the default redirect). With Translatable active and a dropdown language picker on /en this should work.

Is there any reason why this is a bad idea? If not, I'll come back here and report on the set-up when it's up and running (for anyone else looking to do this)

It looks a bit complex to mee, to have to create a duplicate homepage... Maybe you could add that script to the deafult Page_Controller, and make it check the url before deciding to redirect?