Hello list, I need to develop a multilingual web site and I am looking for the best way of handling this task. There are three main issues I know: 1. Storing multilingual data in a database. Possible solutions I know: a. many tables, one per each supported language, e.g. news_en, news_de. b. one table having many columns with translations, e.g. (id, date, text_en, text_de) We use MySQL 4.1 as a back-end. 2. Multilingual HTML templates, possible solutions: a. one generic template for everything, one per each language, like contents_en.tpl.html, contents_de.tpl.html b. many localized templates for each page, e.g news_en.tpl.html, news_de.tpl.html Template engine is Smarty. 3. Storing current language variable, possible solutions: a. inside the URL like /en/news/ b. using cookies c. using sessions Web server is Apache2+mod_rewrite with PHP5 What are pros and cons for each solution? What are other possible solutions for the above issues? Best regards, Denis Gerasimov Outsourcing Services Manager, VEKOS, Ltd. www.vekos.ru -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
