Re: localization folder for web site

Stut schreef:

On 14 Sep 2008, at 17:47, Alain R. wrote:

Jochem Maas wrote:

Alain R. schreef:

Hi, mostly (90%) websites are designed to include localization (made in php) folder like following: www.mywebsite.com/en/ www.mywebsite.com/de/ www.mywebsite.com/fr/ why do they not use only 1 folder and use dynamically PHP to change localization of website ?

who says the 'folders' (directories) en, de, fr et al actually exist?

has this something to do with search engine rating ?

amongst other things, it's also a way of passing along the requested translation with requiring cookies

thanks a lot, Al.

sorry but i miss the point here... if we have http://ww.mywebsite.com/en/index.php, you mean that in fact it can be http://ww.mywebsite.com/index.php?lang=en. but in this case why and how is it possible to see http://ww.mywebsite.com/en/index.php in the adress bar of my browser ? i mean if i do not have access to apache :-)

You need to find out if your host has mod_rewrite installed and allows it to be overridden in .htaccess. If it can then that's how you can do it. If not then I suggest you find another host because the one you're with clearly doesn't match your requirements. Bottom line is that this really isn't hard. Please Google mod_rewrite to understand what it does and how it works. There is no browser involvement whatsoever.

the poor man's equivalent is to set the 404 error handler to /index.php and have it send out a 200 HTTP header if it can actually match the request to some content. ... this is also easily findable on the intertubes.

-Stut