Best way to creat multilingual sites. With gettxt ?

Hi, I have been trying all sorts of techniques on our multilingual website. First I had include files german.inc.php with was just a huge list of varibales: $trans['thankyou']="Danke"; //etc After that I put all into a database. Now someone told be about gettxt in some forum. He said that this was the standard way, also for application software. I would like to try out gettxt but application software doesn't have long text passages like web pages do. How is that dealt with? Anybody does a multilingual site with gettxt ? Thank you very much. http://learn.to/quote