multilingual website

[thosecars82]

hello guys

I want to develop a multilingual website with php. I do not have many ideas about how to do a site multilingual. I have been looking for some information but what I have got until now seems a bit confusing to me.

The most obvious solution is having one static page for each language. Besides I have seen something about using a table in the database to extract the translations to the corresponding language. However, I have seen that it might take too long for people to see a page because the query might delay the process.


I do not know if this option is the best. Could you please provide me with some good and brilliant approach to solve this issue in any website of any size and with any number of different languages?


Thanks in advance

[thosecars82]

Hello folks
This thing is driving me crazy!
I am trying to use the poedit to translate a php hello world website. Although it seems to me that I am doing everything alright, I still don't see the translation in my browser when I browse
http://localhost/pruebalocal1/caca/test.php

The only thing I see is the original message, that is to say, "Hello World". I have done the translation with poedit though. Moreover, I saved it in two files called messages.po and messages.mo

This is my test.php code:

<?php
$locale = "de_DE";
putenv("LC_ALL=$locale");
setlocale(LC_ALL, $locale);
bindtextdomain("messages", "./locale");
textdomain("messages");
print "<p>".gettext("Hello World")."</p>\n";
?>


My poedit screen looks like the screenshoot attached.

My directories are like this:

C:\xampp\htdocs\pruebalocal1\caca
C:\xampp\htdocs\pruebalocal1\caca\test.php
C:\xampp\htdocs\pruebalocal1\caca\locale
C:\xampp\htdocs\pruebalocal1\caca\locale\de_DE
C:\xampp\htdocs\pruebalocal1\caca\locale\de_DE\LC_ MESSAGES C:\xampp\htdocs\pruebalocal1\caca\locale\de_DE\LC_ MESSAGES\messages.po
C:\xampp\htdocs\pruebalocal1\caca\locale\de_DE\LC_ MESSAGES\messages.mo

I hope I have explained myself clearly enough.
Please, I would appreciate any help about this issue.
Thanks in advance

[Rezwan]

you may get some idea from here: http://www.phpsimplicity.com/tips.php?id=15