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Hi,

How do I avoid these long links when I switch Store Views?

Example 1: (this is ok )

www,mydomain.com/default/

Example 2 -16:

www,mydomain.com/sp/?___from_store=default

or

www,mydomain.com/fr/?___from_store=sp

How can i avoid this here > ?___from_store=

or this

com/fr/?___from_store=sp

Thank you very much !

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If you use different subdomains, you should add a switch in index.php to load correct store views.

Make a store view per language.

Then remove the standard language switch (in header.phtml), and create your own to jump to subdomains without adding ?__from_store

Hi Morningtime,

thank you very much !

There is a much easier way to achieve this. I write this for Magento 1.4x, but with a little modification it is achievable for every older Magento version.

If you look into /app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Store.php you see following function:

So without changing any core code grab /app/design/frontend/base/default/template/page/switch/languages.phtml

Change the line

And now you have clean URLs.

Hi DerAndrej,

thank you very much !!!!!

Great news ....

There is another real bug with language switch which occurs if you use localized category and/or product urls, I reported this issue: http://www.magentocommerce.com/bug-tracking/issue?issue=9154

this helped. but now it looks like:

http://www.mystore.de/?___store=de

Yeah, I’ve searched high and low for a way to remove the `?___from_store=` parameter from SEF URLs. Is there anyone out there that can shed some light on this for me? Could the URL Rewrite be used? New install of Magento v1.4.1.1.

Kev

DerAndrej - 14 May 2010 03:54 AM

There is another real bug with language switch which occurs if you use localized category and/or product urls, I reported this issue: http://www.magentocommerce.com/bug-tracking/issue?issue=9154

Ran into the same issue.  If using language (store view) specific url keys changing language via the switcher only changes the store view code but not the url-key, which results in 404.  This is a huge oversight as it invalidates the whole point of using different url keys for different languages.

The only workarounds i can think of is either create custom URL rewrite rules to force the proper url key or to automatically open the home page when the language is changed.  The first option can be time intensive if the number of categories is significant.  The second one makes sense since users don’t jump back and forth between the languages very often, but it feels like a half-baked solution somehow.

Waah, I have the same damn problem and it is really annoying me like hell, especially my customer who runs the show. I tried DerAndrejs solution, but it just works partially (thanks anyways, dude!).

I hope there’s gonne be a solution!

DerAndrej - 12 May 2010 06:47 AM

There is a much easier way to achieve this. I write this for Magento 1.4x, but with a little modification it is achievable for every older Magento version.

If you look into /app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Store.php you see following function:

public function getCurrentUrl($fromStore = true)

So without changing any core code grab /app/design/frontend/base/default/template/page/switch/languages.phtml

Change the line

<option value="<?php echo $_lang->getCurrentUrl() ?>"<?php echo $_selected ?>><?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_lang->getName()) ?></option>

to

<option value="<?php echo $_lang->getCurrentUrl(false) ?>"<?php echo $_selected ?>><?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_lang->getName()) ?></option>

and put the changed file into the corresponding path of your theme folder.

And now you have clean URLs.

Thanks, Worked for me !

Enable “Add Store Code to Urls” to remove “?___store=de”

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