Multilanguage website

[bettina]

My default language is german. It will be so defined in the main site:

main.php
<?
$lang = 'ge';
include("set_language.php");
?>

st_language.php
<?php
if (isset($_GET['lang']))
{
$lang = $_GET['lang'];
}
require("lang.{$lang}.inc.php");
?>
<td align="left" width="50"><a href="?lang=ge"><? echo "DEUTSCH"
?></a></td>
<td align="left" width="50"><a href="?lang=en"><? echo "ENGLISH"
?></a></td>
<td align="left" width="50"><a href="?lang=sp"><? echo "ESPAÑOL"
?></a></td>

If I call another page it works pretty fine:
.....
<td><a href="breweries.php?lang=<? echo $lang ?>&code=<? echo
$countries[$x][0] ?>"><? echo $countries[$x][1] ?></a></td>

The problem is that, when I want to come back from breweries.php, I get
main.php again in german and that's so because I set at the beginning
$lang as 'ge'. But if I don't do that, I get an error. Is there a way
to define the default value of this variable outside the programm?

Note: I'm quite new in PHP.

Thank you! Bettina

[Jerry Stuckle]

be*****@coaster.ch wrote:

My default language is german. It will be so defined in the main site:

main.php
<?
$lang = 'ge';
include("set_language.php");
?>

st_language.php
<?php
if (isset($_GET['lang']))
{
$lang = $_GET['lang'];
}
require("lang.{$lang}.inc.php");
?>
<td align="left" width="50"><a href="?lang=ge"><? echo "DEUTSCH"
?></a></td>
<td align="left" width="50"><a href="?lang=en"><? echo "ENGLISH"
?></a></td>
<td align="left" width="50"><a href="?lang=sp"><? echo "ESPAÑOL"
?></a></td>

If I call another page it works pretty fine:
....
<td><a href="breweries.php?lang=<? echo $lang ?>&code=<? echo
$countries[$x][0] ?>"><? echo $countries[$x][1] ?></a></td>

The problem is that, when I want to come back from breweries.php, I get
main.php again in german and that's so because I set at the beginning
$lang as 'ge'. But if I don't do that, I get an error. Is there a way
to define the default value of this variable outside the programm?

Note: I'm quite new in PHP.

Thank you! Bettina

Maybe instead of using get variables, you could use session variables. If the
session variable isn't set, set it to "ge". Otherwise use it.

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[petermichaux]

I am doing exactly what Jerry suggested

in "index.php" I have something like the following. (this isn't tested
because really I have it spread out through a few files.)

<?php

session_start();

define("DEFAULT_LANGUAGE", 'ge');
define("SITE_ROOT", dirname(__FILE__));

if ( !isset($_SESSION['Language']) )
{
$_SESSION['Language'] = DEFAULT_LANGUAGE;
}
require_once(SITE_ROOT."/languages/".$_SESSION['Language']."/language.php");

?>

[bettina]

I tried it but it doesn' t work.

I wrote the following:

main.php
<?php
session_start();
define("DEFAULT_LANGUAGE", 'ge');
define("SITE_ROOT", dirname(__FILE__));
if (!isset($_SESSION['lang'])) {
$_SESSION['lang'] = DEFAULT_LANGUAGE;
}
require_once(SITE_ROOT."/set_language.php");
?>
set_language.php
<td align="left" width="50"><a href="main.php?lang=ge"><? echo
"DEUTSCH" ?></a></td>
<td align="left" width="50"><a href="main.php?lang=en"><? echo
"ENGLISH" ?></a></td>
<td align="left" width="50"><a href="main.php?lang=sp"><? echo
"ESPAÑOL" ?></a></td>

But now it doesn't even change the language at the start site. I would
like that if one select english, for example, goes to different
"sub-pages" in english and when coming back to main.php, the language
is still English. How can I do?

What is defined by define("SITE_ROOT", dirname(__FILE__));

Thanks.
Bettina

[bettina]

Forget it. IT WORKS!

[Jerry Stuckle]

pe**********@yahoo.com wrote:

I am doing exactly what Jerry suggested

in "index.php" I have something like the following. (this isn't tested
because really I have it spread out through a few files.)

<?php

session_start();

define("DEFAULT_LANGUAGE", 'ge');
define("SITE_ROOT", dirname(__FILE__));

if ( !isset($_SESSION['Language']) )
{
$_SESSION['Language'] = DEFAULT_LANGUAGE;
}
require_once(SITE_ROOT."/languages/".$_SESSION['Language']."/language.php");

?>

Why confuse things with SITE_ROOT? If you want the server's root directory,
$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] gives it to you.

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