Multilanguage Links ?

[Rommeo]

I  m building a multi-language website. My original links are like :

mysite.com/en/news/rainy_day

 

it goes to :

mysite.com/index.php?lang=en&section=news&newsid=rainy_day

 

My problem is;

When you enter the website and choose the language "german", then everything in the website should be in german even the address of the news-link. So for example, when you click the news ;

 

if the website is german mode : it should go to;

mysite.com/de/nachrichten    ( for specific news : mysite.com/de/nachrichten/regenreich_tag )

 

if the website is english mode : it should go to;

mysite.com/en/news          ( for specific news : mysite.com/en/news/rainy_day )

 

So I ll have 2 kinds of addresses. How can I do this ?

My solution is, I ll have a links file ( like the language.php file ) and I ll include it also when a language is choosen. But I m wondering if there is any other way ? or easy way to do this ? and I don't know if there will be unexpected results of doing this.

 

I need your ideas.

[ILMV]

I am assuming you are already using htaccess to send /a/b/c to ?1=a&2=b&3=c... you should change your htaccess file to send the language too

[Rommeo]

I am assuming you are already using htaccess to send /a/b/c to ?1=a&2=b&3=c... you should change your htaccess file to send the language too

But how ? can you give me an example ?

I m already getting the language by mysite.com/en or mysite.com/de

[ILMV]

Right, answer me this question.

 

How are you converting this link:

mysite.com/en/news/rainy_day

 

To this:

mysite.com/index.php?lang=en&section=news&newsid=rainy_day

 

 

Once you can tell me this I might be able to help you...

 

[Rommeo]

Right, answer me this question.

 

How are you converting this link:

mysite.com/en/news/rainy_day

 

To this:

mysite.com/index.php?lang=en&section=news&newsid=rainy_day

 

 

Once you can tell me this I might be able to help you...

 

by .htaccess file. -mod_rewrite.

I hope you get my problem is changing the "address-set" ( all addresses in links ) in order to chosen language. I have no problem printing anything in different language.

 

[Rommeo]

Can someone please help ? I m waiting for a response before I start coding

[ILMV]

I don't think you have explained your problem well enough, are you trying to say when I am on www.mydomain.com/uk/news/hello, you want all other links on that page to include the language?

[Rommeo]

OK, let me explain;

 

lets say you entered the page and there are buttons.

news-

daily -

writers

 

If the page is in english mode buttons' addresses will be this :

news - www.mysite.com/en/news

daily - www.mysite.com/en/daily

writers - www.mysite.com/en/writers

 

but if the page is in german mode buttons' address will be this :

Nachrichten - <a href="www.mysite.com/de/nachrichten">Nachrichten</a>

Diurnally - www.mysite.com/de/diurnally

Schreiberinnen - www.mysite.com/de/screiberinnen

 

When you load the page in any language, The page will be in selected language ALSO I want the addresses ( where it's bold above:www.mysite.com/de/nachrichten ) to be changed. So my question is, how can I change the addresses for a specific language ? should I include them from a file ?

 

[khr2003]

It is a bit hard to answer your questions knowing little about your website design.

First how do does your website knows whether it is in an "english mode" or "gernman mode"? Is it through "$_GET", "$_COOKIES", "$_SESSIONS" or anything else?

Second: how do get the id in the url for the news? Is it through number or words? I noticed this bit in the url "&newsid=rainy_day" is not that supposed to be "&newsid=105" or any other number?

 

In anyway once you figure out the answers for both of these questions you can make a simple if statement or switch condition like this:

if($_GET['mode'] == 'english')
{
$link = "mysite.com/de/nachrichten/rainy_day";
}elseif($_GET['mode'] == 'german'){
$link ="mysite.com/de/nachrichten/regenreich_tag";
}

or something like that

[Rommeo]

It is a bit hard to answer your questions knowing little about your website design.

First how do does your website knows whether it is in an "english mode" or "gernman mode"? Is it through "$_GET", "$_COOKIES", "$_SESSIONS" or anything else?

Second: how do get the id in the url for the news? Is it through number or words? I noticed this bit in the url "&newsid=rainy_day" is not that supposed to be "&newsid=105" or any other number?

Everything is clear in my first post :

mysite.com/index.php?lang=en&section=news&newsid=rainy_day

1- it's through get ..

2- I use words.. No numbers.

[mikesta707]

I would suggest doing what you did in the first post. Wherever you put your links in your page,  just have a simple if (or possibly a switch statement if you are going to have many languages) statement that chooses which link page to include. That way you can easily just add more links and more languages without having to change a lot of code. if all the links for each language are going to be different anyways, there isn't much else PHP can do that is as simple