Many Domains

[smartic]

i have site i want to translate it other languages, run the site with separate comments and forums.

I was thinking to make swedish and polish sites first, If user gets invite he registers in .sw, he gets account in swedish site and in international (.com). but if he is banned/warned in one, he is banned in all other too.

staff in international site can manage(edit,delete) all his files, in all sites, .sw site can manage only their own files.

if user uploaded his files in .sw site, it is uploaded to .sw and international wtih [hu] in front. for it... If files is uploaded into international site, it is uploaded only there, nowhere else.

For international (.com) site each user can choose in his profile if he wants to see only international site files or all, from all sites.

Each site has it's own: Forums, comments, news, polls and blogs.

how can i do that put keeping the functionality the same for the other sites, in other words if i changed the php code in site effect the others ?

and use one DB for the sites or use for every site it's own DB ?

[TheServant]

So have you re-written everything for each site? Does each site have different databases? If not, do you record which site a user is part of? Could you?

[smartic]

So have you re-written everything for each site?

I'm only making the structure for the whole sites, and i need good structure for them,for the forums it's good idea for every site to have there own DB put for the site it self i need only the translation only that will be changed put the functionality the same for every domain.

Does each site have different databases?

i plan to register for each site to have there domain name.

[Atli]

Hi.

You could have all domains point to the same server and serve content based on the URL the client actually requested.

Like, if you had example.com, example.pl and example.se, all pointing to the same server, this would print a welcome message based on the URL used to connect:

<?php
switch($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']) 
{
    case "example.pl":
        echo "Some Polish welcome phrase.";
        break;
    case "example.se":
        echo "Some Swedish weclome phrase.";
        break;
    default:
        echo "Default weclome, for the .com domain.";
}
?>

Using this technique, you could translate the entire page, show different content (forums, blogs, etc...), and even use different databases.

[smartic]

put this technique it need to have the same PHP files on every domain, and that will be hard to update if i found bug in my code, this technique will force me to upload the whole code again on every domain,what i need is to upload the php files only in .com and other domains have only the index page that will use the code that you have presented Atli and read the code from the .com.
example for "http://example.sw/index.php" :

<?php
switch($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']) 
{
    case "example.sw":
        require('http://example.com/code/php/sw');
        break;
    case "example.se":
        require('http://example.com/code/php/se');
        break;
    default:
        require('http://example.com/code/php/');
}
?>

[Atli]

You can host multiple domain names from the same server and have it serve the same files for both.

For example, you could have both example.com and example.net point to the same server, so if I were to request either of these:
- http://example.com/index.html
- http://example.net/index.html

They would both load the same file, located at (for example):
- http://208.77.188.166/index.html

This is what the technique I mentioned above was aimed at.
That would obviously not fit if you intended to host each domain name on a separate server.

[wizardry]

How about the language conversion;

how do we get the language converson for instance as per previous statements

example.pl polish
example.sw swedish

is their a module for php to out put the data stored in utf8_unicode_ci to the requested domain name?

if so how?

[Atli]

@wizardry
I don't get the question.

In that scenario, both domains point to the same file, which can be a .php file.
PHP can determine which domain was actually requested, as demonstrated by the example in my first post.

Using that, you can have PHP act differently based on the requested domain.
You could even have it load different databases, include different PHP files, use different output formats or different character sets.

If the user requested the Polish domain, you would have it speak Polish. If it requested the Swedish domain, have it speak Swedish.

[wizardry]

hello -

i understand tht it's pointing to the index and then the index decides which domain its going to on ethnicity.

what i would like to know is there a language pack or something to convert your english already designed .php page, to say sweedish language in php?

the way i designed my db is to handle multiple languages. i just cant find a way to convert the existing model over to the new language.

thanks in advance for your help.

[Markus]

Have a look at the gettext() function. You won't be able to convert everything perfectly, and you'll have to rewrite your code a little bit ... or a lot.

PS. sorry for butting in :P

[wizardry]

no problem i'm looking into utf8 now for php encoding to new language. i will look into the gettext().