Manual:$wgContLang

Details
The content language object is the Language object associated with the wiki being viewed.

It is one of two global language objects (  is the other).

Language objects represent the language used for incidental text, and also has some character encoding functions and other locale stuff.

The language is defined in  .

See  for more information.

Often used Methods
This is not an exhaustive list, view class above to see a complete listing.


 * : Get a namespace value by key in the current language. Examples:   returns "MediaWiki",   returns "Category".


 * : Get a localized special page name by the English term. Example:   returns "Special:upload".


 * : Not implemented. Convert text to different variants of a language.


 * : Format a size in bytes for output, using an appropriate unit (B, KB, MB or GB) according to the magnitude in question


 * : Format a time in seconds for output, using an appropriate unit (seconds, minutes, hours or days) according to the magnitude in question