Website in multible languager

[mikawhat]

Hi,

I'd like to know about publishing a website in multiple languages. What's the best way to achieve that? One table for all contents or one table per language? Any other things i should have in mind? Please let me know. Thanks in advance!

[dalecosp]

Lots of applications simply initialize a $lang array in an included page; the default is (in English-speaking countries) English, and a session variable, if set by the user selects a different array to be used.

So, the welcome page might have:

<?php

session_start();
include 'lang.php';
echo $lang['welcome'].", ".$_SESSION['username'];
?>

where "lang.php" is something like:

<?php

$lang = array();

switch($_SESSION['language']) {
   case "Francais":
      $lang['welcome']="Bienvenue";
      break;
   case "Deutsch":
      $lang['welcome']="Wilkommen";
      break;
   default:
      $lang['welcome']="Welcome";
}

I'm not sure that they're coded in "One Big Switch", but you get the idea.

HTH,