Hi Kim,

I've just had a dig around the Umbraco source to see if there was anything new for this but it appears that currently using the umbraco.library is still the best approach.

You can access the Domains class directly if you need any other methods (this is basically what the library method is doing), e.g:

@using umbraco.cms.businesslogic.web;
@{
 var firstDomainLanguage = Domain.GetDomainsById(Model.Content.AncestorOrSelf(1).Id)[0].Language;
} 

 I did find a really nice looking DomainHelper in the Umbraco.Web.Routing namespace but all of the methods are currently internal so no use (yet).

Thanks,

Jeavon

Hi Jeavon,

Thank you for your reply - but I couldn't get it to work :(

There's no errors in the code, but I get the error on the frontend "Error loading MacroEngine script (file: Language.cshtml) "

@inherits umbraco.MacroEngines.DynamicNodeContext 
@using umbraco.cms.businesslogic.web; 

@{ 
var firstDomainLanguage = Domain.GetDomainsById(Model.Content.AncestorOrSelf(1).Id.Language);
} 

@firstDomainLanguage

Can you see what I'am doing wrong? 

Best regards 
Kim 

Hi Kim, try this

@inherits umbraco.MacroEngines.DynamicNodeContext 
@using umbraco.cms.businesslogic.web; 

@{ 
var firstDomainLanguage =Domain.GetDomainsById(Model.AncestorOrSelf(1).Id)[0].Language;
} 

@firstDomainLanguage

Let me know if that works?

Jeavon

No, sorry - didn't work :(

Ah, got it

@inherits umbraco.MacroEngines.DynamicNodeContext 
@using umbraco.cms.businesslogic.web; 

@{ 
    var firstDomainLanguage = Domain.GetDomainsById(Model.AncestorOrSelf(1).Id)[0].Language;
} 

@firstDomainLanguage.CultureAlias;

Absolutely fantastic!

Thank you very much!

Great! Of course this will only get the language from the first domain assigned to your homepage.

Okay, I see that ... I guess it's easier to make a dropdown at each language start node for now. That's a shame.

Thank you for your help 

Using below method, gives me error: Error loading Partial View script (file: ~/Views/MacroPartials/LanguageSwitcher.cshtml)

@inherits umbraco.MacroEngines.DynamicNodeContext 
@using umbraco.cms.businesslogic.web; 

@{ 
    var firstDomainLanguage =Domain.GetDomainsById(Model.AncestorOrSelf(1).Id)[0].Language;
} 

@firstDomainLanguage.CultureAlias;

Using below method, gives me error: Error loading Partial View script (file: ~/Views/MacroPartials/LanguageSwitcher.cshtml)

@inherits umbraco.MacroEngines.DynamicNodeContext 
@using umbraco.cms.businesslogic.web; 

@{ 
    var firstDomainLanguage =Domain.GetDomainsById(Model.AncestorOrSelf(1).Id)[0].Language;
} 

@firstDomainLanguage.CultureAlias;

Hi Flip.

To me it looks like you are using MVC razor and not the old DynamicNode razor which is also not recommeded to use any more.

But if you have a multilingual websites in the same single installation of Umbraco I think that you could use this snippet of code to create a langauge switcher, in Razor for your frontend of your site. In the example below I am using the strongly typed version of Razor.

@{
    var homePages = Umbraco.TypedContentAtRoot().Where(x => x.DocumentTypeAlias == "umbHomePage");
 
        <ul>
            @foreach(var page in homePages){
                <li>
                    <a href="@page.Url">
                        @page.Name
                    </a>
                </li>
            }
        </ul>
}

This will make a list of all your nodes using the document type "umbHomePage" and pull out the name of the node and a link to it. Remember to change the "umbHomePage" so it mach the alias of your document type for your hompage document type.

Hope this helps,

/Dennis

Hi, in 7.2.4 the GetCulture-extension is public, (http://issues.umbraco.org/issue/U4-3753), but it still doesn't solve the problem. You still need to have separate domains to make it work. All because it ignores wildcard-domains. Which I suppose is the case for the thread-starter. Have a look at  Umbraco.Web.Routing.DomainHelper.DomainForNode(int nodeId, Uri current)

However, I found a pretty easy solution for this:

public static CultureInfo GetCulture(IPublishedContent content)
        {
            List<IPublishedContent> ancestors = content.Ancestors().ToList();
            Domain[] domains = Domain.GetDomains(true).ToArray<Domain>();
            foreach(IPublishedContent cnt in ancestors)
            {
                Domain nodeDomain = domains.Where(d => d.RootNodeId == cnt.Id).FirstOrDefault();
                if(nodeDomain != null)
                    return new CultureInfo(nodeDomain.Language.CultureAlias);
            }
            return new CultureInfo(domains.First().Language.CultureAlias); 
        }

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