Change in Language of a website

[madhukar_garg]

Dear All,

Can any one tell me if it is possible to change in language of the complete website by clicking on just the flag of different country.
i have seen it in many website.

Thanks in Advance

madhukar Garg

[Kudose]

Yes. It is possible.

[madhukar_garg]

Hi kudose,

thanks for reply,

pls telll me how it can possible. pls tell me complete procedure...

Thanks in advance........

Madhukar Garg

[Kudose]

Well ...

You will need separate language files.

When a user comes to your web site, you will need to load a default language from the files.

When the user clicks your flag, you will reload the page with the new language files loaded.

Most of the time people do that by adding ?lang=esp to the end of the URL and do the check in the code for that in the URL.

In the example ?lang=esp, you would change the loaded files from whatever to Spanish.

To be honest, an explanation is a bit outside of my scope of teaching.

Use this URL to find some good tutorials.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=creating+multilingual+site&btnG=Google+Search

[Kudose]

Of course, the super easy way is just to link to Google Translator and let it do the work for you.

Although that is lazy and most of the time not very effective in translating.

[blackhorse]

If you are going to use the database backend. The tables could be like that
table product:

product_id
product_code
price

table product_description

product_id
language_id
name
description

Same goes with almost all your tables. Go get a zencart or oscommerce copies and explore their database structures.