Ladies and Gentlemen..
I've got a moderately complex web application in PHP feeding off MySQL
and user input. The application is in English, but we need to localise
it into other languages. We also need to devise a system that makes it
easy to administer for translator(s) and programmer(s) and suffers
minimal performance slow down. Of course this issue should have been
considered at the design stage, but it's too late now.
I see three routes..
1) Replace text with string variables which get their values via queries
to a MySQL table. This would be easiest to set up and easiest to
administer. But would it significantly slow performance compared to
either of the other options?
2) Replace text with string variables which get their values from
include files. This would also be almost as easy to administer and
presumably faster than 1.
3) Hard code translations right into the php pages. This would
presumably offer fastest performance, but would be bloody difficult to
administer, particularly with upgrades.
Do you have any experience with this kind of thing? My inclination is to
go with option (2). But you are the experts. Perhaps I am wrong or there
is a better solution I haven't seen.
Many thanks!
Jeffrey
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