Re: localization folder for web site

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.

if i use apache .htaccess to rewrite address, it still do not understand how it makes my life easier.

for example, if user run page www.myweb.com/index.php?l=en and in my .htaccess i have rewrote index.php?l=en to be rewritten as www.myweb.com/en/index.php, it means that in my index.php i must use a regex to extract /en/ variable and to convert it to a $lang variable for instance. so isn't it easy to use www.myweb.com/index.php?l=en. what does such rewriting makes my life better ? is it only such tip for search engine better referencing ? i'm lost... :-(