[SOLVED] website select language

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Hi

 

I'm looking into doing a language selection for a website that I'm creating.

I envision the functionality being something similar to this but with less languages.

 

http://www.thomann.de/

 

Could somebody point in the right direction of a good tutorial maybe?

 

Or possibly just give me an outline of the steps involved and what to consider.

 

Thanks!

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$defaultLanguage = 'en';
$language = !empty($_GET['language']) && language_is_valid($_GET['language']) ? $_GET['language'] : $defaultLanguage;
language_load($language);

$languageDirectory = 'path/to/lang/dir';
function language_get_file($language) {
    global $languageDirectory;
    return implode(DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, array($languageDirectory, $language . '.lang.php'));
}

function language_is_valid($language) {
    $fullpath = language_get_file($language);
    return file_exists($fullpath);
}

function language_load($language) {
    $fullpath = language_get_file($language);
    include_once($fullpath);
}

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Thats very helpful.

Thankyou!

 

Just for the posterity of the thread I came across this nice tutorial also

 

http://www.bitrepository.com/php-how-to-add-multi-language-support-to-a-website.html