hreflang multi language with backend URL?

Question

I am adding hreflang-tags to a multi-language Magento store. I found the code below on here and used it in the page header. It does what it's supposed to, but I'm looking for another solution.

<?php
$website = Mage::app()->getWebsite()->getStores();
foreach ( $website as $store) {
$lang = $store->getConfig('general/locale/code');
    if (strtolower($lang) == 'en_us'){
        $lang = 'en-us'; // en-us or other
        }
    if (strtolower($lang) == 'nl_nl'){
        $lang = 'nl-nl'; // nl-nl or other
        }
    echo '<link rel="alternate" href="' . $store->getCurrentUrl() . '" hreflang="' . $lang . '"/>' . "\n";
}
?>

This returns a tag like:

<link rel="alternate" href="https://example.com/category?___store=english&amp;___from_store=english" hreflang="en-us"/>

But I would rather have a code that returns a tag with the actual URL as specified in the backend.

For example:

A product named "shoulder-bag" in category "bags" returns an URL in English as: example.com/bags/shoulder-bag And in Dutch as: example.com/tassen/schouder-tas

I'm also missing the code to specify a "default"

Can anybody help me out? Thanks!

Answer 1

Here you can find a complete explanation on how to implement that feature : http://inchoo.net/magento/implement-rel-alternate-links-in-magento/

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In your case your problem is your not telling Magento that the store is changing in your foreach loop.
You have to tell him with this function :

{foreach}  
Mage::app()->setCurrentStore($store->getId());  
[...]   
{endforeach}

Don't forget to reset to your current store after the loop.