Creating a muiltingual site

lrdaramis

Hi there,
I'm thinking about creating a multilingual site, (spanish, english, german), does anybody have any experience on how to accomplish this, easily? any scripts maybe?

Carlos

toma42

check out gettext
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.gettext.php

I don't know if it's the best way but it is A way.

lrdaramis

Thank Tom,I'll check it out.

danzene

i'v tried this before. it was not at a very large scale though. you can check this site out http://www.itrek.f2s.com it has an english and spanish section; but it only uses 1 script. i sent language information with the link.

rulian

well, I dont know if you want this, but php nuke had multilingual support, I dont know much about it but it's worth a look
www.phpnuke.org

Anon

we are using this approach:

all the texts are stored in a table:

text:
id primary key
id_language primary key (holds iso language codes)
text

so, for example we can store a text in english and german:

ID: 45
ID_LANGUAGE: ENG
TEXT: who's there

ID: 45
ID_LANGUAGE: GER
TEXT: wer ist da

when the user enters and chooses his language, a cookie (or session var.) named $LANGUAGE is set. it contains the ISO code, eg: GER for German.

include that constant in your sql selects (and id_language='$LANGUAGE') in order to retrieve the text in the actual language.

triffik

PHP Nuke only includes support for the areas around the site being in a language other than English. So, although you may set the language as say, Spanish, you will only read the base (stuff that is always there) as Spanish. Not the content which is represented as articles.