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CONTENTS OF THIS FILE
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 * Introduction
 * Installation
 * Maintainers

INTRODUCTION
------------

This module allows you to present visitors of your website with a
landingpage / splash page where they can select the language of their choice,
based on the languages that have been enabled on your Drupal site.

This is useful in situations where you don't want to enforce a default language
to users (e.g. because of political or corporate sensitivities) if they come to
your website without a language preference available (url, cookie, ...)

The language selection page can be overridden through Drupal's template system.

It is recommended that you move the "Selection Page" language detection
method near the bottom.
Preferably you need to have another method of detection activated above it,
such as "URL" or "Cookie"
(via the contrib module http://drupal.org/project/language_cookie),
if you don't want to have users arrive on the language selection page too
frequently.

INSTALLATION
------------

1. You need to have the Locale module enabled, and more than 1 enabled
language on your website.
2. Copy the module into sites/default/modules or another directory
that Drupal can find.
3. Enable the module with Drush or through the web interface.
4. Check the status report page to see if everything is good.
5. Go to admin/config/regional/language/configure to configure
language detection and selection
   - enable the "Selection Page" detection method
   - it is recommended to position this method near the bottom,
   just above "Default".

THEMING
-------
Customize the template by copying the .tpl.php file to your current
theme directory. If you selected "Template in theme", you might want
to add a page--languageselection.tpl.php file to your theme, that removes
any sidebars or regions that could intervene with the language selection task.

MAINTAINERS
------------
Drupal 6 version and initial Drupal 7 port: Pol Dell'Aiera <drupol@about.me>
Drupal 7 version: Sven Decabooter <sven@svendecabooter.be>

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  5.  * Introduction

  6.  * Installation

  7.  * Maintainers

  8. 

  9. INTRODUCTION

  10. ------------

  11. 

  12. This module allows you to present visitors of your website with a

  13. landingpage / splash page where they can select the language of their choice,

  14. based on the languages that have been enabled on your Drupal site.

  15. 

  16. This is useful in situations where you don't want to enforce a default language

  17. to users (e.g. because of political or corporate sensitivities) if they come to

  18. your website without a language preference available (url, cookie, ...)

  19. 

  20. The language selection page can be overridden through Drupal's template system.

  21. 

  22. It is recommended that you move the "Selection Page" language detection

  23. method near the bottom.

  24. Preferably you need to have another method of detection activated above it,

  25. such as "URL" or "Cookie"

  26. (via the contrib module http://drupal.org/project/language_cookie),

  27. if you don't want to have users arrive on the language selection page too

  28. frequently.

  29. 

  30. INSTALLATION

  31. ------------

  32. 

  33. 1. You need to have the Locale module enabled, and more than 1 enabled

  34. language on your website.

  35. 2. Copy the module into sites/default/modules or another directory

  36. that Drupal can find.

  37. 3. Enable the module with Drush or through the web interface.

  38. 4. Check the status report page to see if everything is good.

  39. 5. Go to admin/config/regional/language/configure to configure

  40. language detection and selection

  41.    - enable the "Selection Page" detection method

  42.    - it is recommended to position this method near the bottom,

  43.    just above "Default".

  44. 

  45. THEMING

  46. -------

  47. Customize the template by copying the .tpl.php file to your current

  48. theme directory. If you selected "Template in theme", you might want

  49. to add a page--languageselection.tpl.php file to your theme, that removes

  50. any sidebars or regions that could intervene with the language selection task.

  51. 

  52. MAINTAINERS

  53. ------------

  54. Drupal 6 version and initial Drupal 7 port: Pol Dell'Aiera 

  55. Drupal 7 version: Sven Decabooter