Get the default language in the site frontend of joomla 2.5

Question

How do I get the default language in the site frontend of Joomla 2.5?

score 9 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 22 '14 at 22:56

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After hours of reading through web and sources, I found this would be the correct answer:

JComponentHelper::getParams('com_languages')->get('site')

answered Mar 22 '14 at 22:56

tishma

This worked for me (default lang is not En). Thanks! – beej Apr 30 '14 at 20:01
@beej: en is neither a default lang for me. perhaps that's why other ideas wouldn't work for us. – tishma May 06 '14 at 15:25
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This should be the correct answer for the question asked! The accepted answer if for getting the current language(which is not the title of this post! – jakabadambalazs May 28 '14 at 15:22

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:08

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Try this

$lang =& JFactory::getLanguage();
echo 'Current language is: ' . $lang->getName();

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edited May 23 '17 at 12:08

Community

answered Feb 06 '13 at 04:43

Jobin

i am not getting the default language,my default language is dutch but its shows en-GB – Mohammed Nagoor Feb 06 '13 at 04:54
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try this too. $default = $lang->getDefault(); – Jobin Feb 06 '13 at 05:12
thanks for you reply, it works and another code is `$lang = JFactory::getLanguage(); $language_tag = $lang->getTag();` – Mohammed Nagoor Feb 06 '13 at 07:29
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So you were really asking for the user's language not the default language for the site? You might want to change the title to reflect that just to avoid future confusion. – Elin Feb 06 '13 at 13:18

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 28 '15 at 07:44

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To get the users language on Joomla 3 you can do

JFactory::getUser()->getParam('language', JFactory::getLanguage()->getTag());

answered Jan 28 '15 at 07:44

Laoneo

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