RE: [PHP] multilingual website
| From: | Shaunak Kashyap | Date: | Thu, 05 Feb 2004 20:46:09 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] multilingual website | ||
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> My inclination would be to just use the DB, have linked tables with
> languages and pieces of text in various languages. A single query could
> get a full language preference setting for a site, and a little array
> munging could turn it into a usable set of key/value pairs, where the key
> is the context of the text, and the value if the text itself.
>
> (Been thinking about this alot, since I'm being asked to develop a hybrid
> flash/html site that needs to be in Spanish and English)
>
Yes, I would also recommend the DB approach. The tables in your DB that
contain language-sensitive information would probably have a languageId
field which you could use to limit your result set to a specific language.
HTH,
Shaunak