I had been wanting to activate multi-language on my site but the member reaction to the question was lukewarm. So I hesitate doing the multi-language core hack mentioned elsewhere (it works).

I can live with the basic language module. This takes care of the basics but I'd like to do a few translations. I'd be happy to translate:
. Custom block(s)
. Main Menu

I can see that {$xoops_langcode} follows my currently selected language. I can't seem to use it to present lang specific content.
<{ if $xoops_langcode == "en" }>
English xxxxx
<{else}>
Other xxxxx
<{/if}>

Something simple like that. I can't seem to find variables other than X_SITEURL for custom blocks. Then I'll want to xlate the main menu...

The 'problem' here is that a custom block is PHP, HTML or text-sanitised text. None of these include the smarty template engine, so smarty variables do not work there.

Herko

I see. That puts me back to a core hack. With a 2.1 version coming before too long I think I should wait...

It will be nice if a multi language function makes it into the core

Thanks for the reply.

_LANGCODE is defined in root/language/[Sel-Language]/global.php and should be usable in custom blocks.