One link to point a multilanguage article

Question

I am using Joomla 3.5. All is set up for MultiLanguage. Now I have two articles, one in english the other translated in italian. I would like to have an URL that when is used it will redirect the user to the article in the language of the user browser. SEF is enabled.

I would prefer to not create a menu item for each article I need, but anyway let suppose I have this alias created in menu pointing to the right article:

article-in-english
articolo-in-italiano

SEF URL will be /en/article-in-english and /it/articolo-in-italiano.

What I would like is to have only one link /article-for-all that I could publish and that will redirect to the correct user language automatically. But also pointing to /article-in-english (that has language associations configured) could be ok for me if this could work as a entry point for routing.

Many thanks!

Answer 1

Joomla router just doesn't work that way.

Only way you could have a link /article-for-all is to create a menu for each article and to manualy set that alias in both menu items, because Search Engines are looking for the XML "lang" and not the language of the alias.

BUT you could try a different approach:

There is a nice little free plugin called Easy Language, for easy and immediate management of multilingual texts in every possible area of Joomla, articles, components, modules, metadata, template, other components (example K2) etc.

The parameter that filters the language is the language code URL. (es www.yoursite.com/en/page).
To use simply insert the following code in the template, editor or any editable field of any component or module:
{lang en}Text english{/lang}
{lang it}Testo italiano{/lang}

So, basically what I'm pointing to is is to have ONE article with menu alias you want, and inside that article to separate English from Italian text by using aforementioned plugin codes. You can use the codes in Article Title too.

Now... I haven't tested this plugin in newest Joomlas and used it before only in J2.5, but you should give it a try.

Hope this helps.