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Multilingual website

hgeithus
Hi.

I want to create a multilingual website (english, german and norwegian). And I know a little PHP and MySQL. How should I approach this? Should I store the text in different databases? I don't know how to do this in a good way, that makes it easy to maintain.

Any help is welcome. It would be very interesting to hear from someone who has made a similar system before :)
Oct 31 '08 #1
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dlite922
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I'll tell you one thing, it's a pain in the neck.

Look into gettext. A PHP module you can load that makes life a whole lot easier.

Unfortunately for me site, the host did not allow gettext extension and I had to look into gettext alternative (there is one that does it with code)

A quick Google with this info should lead you down the right path.



Dan
Nov 1 '08 #2
Thank you. I'll look into it right away :)
Nov 1 '08 #3
Hi again.

My multilingual website is now up and running with gettext, although there is not much content atm. Anyway, I searched around the web for a resource that could show me how to get started with gettext, and this is the guide that worked for me:

http://mel.melaxis.com/devblog/2005/08/06/localizing-php-web-sites-using-gettext/

It requires minimal of insight, but it illustrates the idea very well. A good example of learning by doing. This is not advertising, it's just a good resource :)
Nov 2 '08 #4

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