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Submitted by Sarah Jay on Tue, 08/30/2016 - 20:46
PermalinkShort, cool and informative. Thank you!
Submitted by Josip Rajkovic on Wed, 10/17/2018 - 15:04
PermalinkSmall remark,
To get the currently selected language for content :
Submitted by tty11 on Thu, 02/07/2019 - 09:17
PermalinkThank you Philip. I did not have the interface translation enabled so your snipped was always returning the default language. The snipped posted by "tty11" worked. Thanks tty11 :), however I will make a small change to it. Drupal couldn't find "LanguageInterface" in my theme's preprocess function, I had to provide namespace too as follows
Submitted by Ejay Rus on Fri, 12/11/2020 - 09:57
PermalinkThanks Ejay. I wrote this post during my first few weeks of Drupal 8 development. I've since learned a lot about how the language manager works so there are probably a few contextual issues with my original snippet :)
Submitted by philipnorton42 on Fri, 12/11/2020 - 12:15
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