Language translations best practice?

[OldWolf]

Howdy all,

 

I'm working on a website that needs to support several different languages.  There is a good chance of a lot of load on the website, so I'd like the design to be fairly sleek.  What is the best method I could apply for different languages?

 

Here's my intial thought, feel free to explain why this is a bad idea. 

 

Class lang:

- stores the lang strings in the simple format of array("lang string goes here" => "translation goes here").

- Loads new strings by a method that gets files and merges the stored and new arrays.

 

Within the files - $lang->i18n("Translate this string");

[juddy]

hi ,

if i where you i will use the same way you said.