WP_Multilingual language switchers samples

simple active and pasive languages switcher code

<?php
    $str = "<div id='switchlangs'>";
    $str .= "<h3>".__("Languages")."</h3>";
    $str .= "<ul>";
    foreach($GLOBALS['AviableLanguages'] as $_K=>$_I){
        $str .=  "<li>";
        if ($_I['lang_shortcode'] != $language){
            $str .= "<a href='".WPML::LanguageLink($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], $_I['lang_shortcode'])."'>".$_I['name']."</a>";
        } else {
            $str .=  "<span>".$_I['name']."</span>";
        }
        $str .=  "</li>";
    }
    $str .= "</ul></div>";

    echo $str;
?>

dropdown quick jump example (active and pasive only)

<script language="JavaScript">
	function MM_jumpMenu(targ,selObj,restore){
	eval(targ+".location='"+selObj.options[selObj.selectedIndex].value+"'");
	if (restore) selObj.selectedIndex=0;
	}
	</script> 

	<?php
    $str = "<div id='switchlangs'>";
    $str .= "<h3>Languages</h3>";
    $str .= "<select onChange=\"MM_jumpMenu('parent',this,0)\" style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt\" size=\"1\" tabindex=\"1\">";

    foreach($GLOBALS['AviableLanguages'] as $_K=>$_I){
        $str .=  "<option ";
        if ($_I['lang_shortcode'] == $GLOBALS['language']){ $str .= ' selected ';  }
        $str .= "value='".WPML::LanguageLink($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], $_I['lang_shortcode'])."'>".$_I['name'];
        $str .=  "</option>";
    }
    $str .= "</select></div>";

    echo $str;
	?>

sample with a flags

go here and download brilliant icons of flags
https://famfamfam.com/lab/icons/flags/

lets assume that you have upload neeeded flags (lets imaging that we use Dutch , Ukranian, and Japan languages at site

so we need de.png , ua.png (and renaming it to uk.png course language code for ukranian isnt country code its uk), and jp.png to ja.png same as ukranian its its a little bit different than country code.

so. imagine that de.png,uk.png,ja.png located at https://example.com/flags/

lets take one of previous examples and changed it.

simple active languages flag only switcher

<?php
    $str = "<div id='switchlangs'>";
    $str .= "<h3>".__('Languages')."</h3>";
    $str .= "<ul>";
    foreach($GLOBALS['AviableLanguages'] as $_K=>$_I){
        $str .=  "<li>";
        if ($_I['lang_shortcode'] != $language){
            $str .= "<a href='".WPML::LanguageLink($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], $_I['lang_shortcode'])."' title='".$_I['name']."'><img src='https://example.com/flags/".$_I['lang_shortcode'].".png' alt='".$_I['name']."' /></a>";
        }
        $str .=  "</li>";
    }
    $str .= "</ul></div>";
    echo $str;

?>

that was a simple dirty and ugly example you can style it via css and make various expmples =).

live demo of switcher for my future site…

<div class="bar">
					<?php 

						foreach($GLOBALS['AviableLanguages'] as $lang){
							if ($lang['lang_shortcode'] != $language){
								$switch = __('Ваша мова ').$lang['name'].'?';
								?>
								<div class="langs"><a href="<?php echo str_replace('/'.$language.'/', '/'.$lang['lang_shortcode'].'/', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); ?>" title="<?php echo $switch; ?>" class="lang"><?php echo $switch; ?></a></div><?php
							}
						}
					?>
				</div>

+ combined localization of switcher code produce

english part of site – title in ukranian “Your language Ukranian?”
ukrainian part of site – title in englsih “Switch to Englsih?”

its look like this

https://img513.imageshack.us/my.php?image=switcherexampleha0.gif