Question Switching Template based on Site Language

We run a multilingual (Arabic/English) site with Kunena installed.

The language files seem to do their job, but as Arabic is RTL, we need to way to dynamically change the Template selection to reflect the same. We currently have two templates, one for English and another for Arabic (RTL).

Typically, we use:

if($this->direction == 'rtl')

as the means to determine which Template to choose within Joomla, but how would a similar approch be performed with Kunena.

Appreciate if someone could point this out to us or any other approch to achive the same.

Hello,

I think that i can make a little to allow changing template in the user profile in frontend.

A better option would be to allow changing the template from the frontend of the forum.

As a site admin, I can always configure a special URL link with template parameters passed into it to solve this problem.

What can I do for the time being to achive this?

I have do the modification, you can try it :



you need to modify the database with this query :

Another crazy idea to try might be, if you're using JoomFish already, to hack the new fb_config content elemet to include and the template parameter as well for each language?

kmilos wrote:

Another crazy idea to try might be, if you're using JoomFish already, to hack the new fb_config content elemet to include and the template parameter as well for each language?

This is not just another crazy idea, this is an ideal solution for my case and that of many others with JoomFish and both LTR and RTL setups.

I still believe the frontend should have a language/template switch for users to choose from as an option. But as a request I would consider it to be something belonging to the "Wish List".

Thanks and million kmilos and xillibit.