multi-language site

[Anon]

A user gets in the site choosing a language.(english,french...) $lang="english"

I want to store this information an acces to it from the other pages, frames .. etc ( in the same site).

How can I do that???

[melchy]

try passing the variable $lang="english" with link:
a href="your_file.php?lang=english" etc.

[spider_man]

All links should have the 'languaje' variable and all forms shuld have it in a hidden field.

[jariizumi]

Those are all good ways, but... why not be standard and use a Cookie?

setcookie("lang");

That will make $lang persistent throughout the entire directory at least, without passing anything. At least for all the multi-ligual sites I've worked with, this seems like what's popular.

[Anon]

I have a site that uses NUMEROUS languages. Each web page corresponds to its identical in another language.

see http://www.startcasino.com

I basicly made a file called "lang.php" using <? include "lang.php" ?> brings it in.

The beginning of each page a variable ($category) is set. the file names are basicly as follows:

$category.php (English)
$category-fr.php (French)
$category-chc.php (Chinese-Cantonese)
&category-he.php (Hebrew)
etc etc etc

The 'lang.php' file will always load and based on the $category, will always point to the corresponding page for each language.