[Plugin: Polylang] get current language

Hi,
today I needed to get the current language w/o the flag.
But the function pll_current_language() returns only the localization.

Because of this I added a new pll-function which returns the language name w/o the flag.
Possible arguments are: echo, show_flag, show_name, link, display_name_as
All arguments except link work as same as in pll_the_languages.
The argument link returns the current language as link or not.

You can now call <?php echo pll_current_language2(array('show_flag' => 1)); ?> to get the current language name and the corresponding flag

Add this to the include/core.php:

// displays (or returns) the language switcher
function current_language2($args = '') {
	$defaults = array(
		'echo' => 0, // don't echoes the output
		'link' => 0, // don't get as link
		'show_flag' => 0, // don't show flags
		'show_name' => 1, // show language names
		'display_name_as' => 'name', // valid options are slug and name
	);
	extract(wp_parse_args($args, $defaults));

	$output = '';

	foreach ($this->get_languages_list(false) as $language) {
		// continue if not current language
		if ($this->curlang->term_id != $language->term_id) {
			continue;
		}

		$url = $force_home ? null : $this->get_translation_url($language);
		$url = apply_filters('pll_the_language_link', $url, $language->slug, $language->description);

		$url = isset($url) ? $url : $this->get_home_url($language); // if the page is not translated, link to the home page

		$flag = $show_flag ? $this->get_flag($language) : '';
		$name = $show_name || !$show_flag ? esc_html($display_name_as == 'slug' ? $language->slug : $language->name) : '';

		if($link == 1) {
			$output .= sprintf("<a hreflang='%s' href='%s'>%s</a>",
				esc_attr($language->slug), esc_url($url), $show_flag && $show_name ? $flag.'&nbsp;'.$name : $flag.$name);
		}
		else {
			$output .= sprintf("%s",
				$show_flag && $show_name ? $flag.'&nbsp;'.$name : $flag.$name);
		}
	}

	if(!$echo)
		return $output;
	echo $output;
}

Add this to the include/api.php:

// returns the current language
function pll_current_language2($args = '') {
	global $polylang;
	return isset($polylang) ? $polylang->current_language2($args) : false;
}

Maybe this will help someone 😉

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/polylang/