index.php?language=en

[massimoGornatti]

hey guys, ok so I'm creating a blog-type site for my family. And many of my relatives live in Argentina. So I wanted to post messages both in english and spanish. Maybe have a language selector up on top of the blog so

that people can choose. But I don't want to have two pages for each language version. I would like to just have one and call which language is being used.

 

I've seen this as part of the URL: index.php?language=en

 

that's what I want. How do they do that? do I have to enclose each post with div tags?

 

can anyone help me? thanks!!!

[Moon-Man.net]

you will need to use the $_GET[] array, read up on it <a href='http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_get.asp'>HERE</a>

to access that variable you would use

 

echo $_GET['language']

and it would print what ever proceeds the = sign in the URL.

 

Now as for the actual language, I would have no idea how you are going to do that. Include a different page maybe?

-- Nathan

[corbin]

I'm assuming your blog will be based around a SQL database.  The best way to do it would be when ever you make posts, have a select box for selecting language.  Then when you insert the stuff into the database, just have English as 0 and Spanish as 1 or something.  Then, based on the $_GET['language'] you could query the DB in different ways....

 

For example, the page that shows the post could look something like:

 

//assume the db conn is already made

if($_COOKIE['language'] == "es" || $_GET['language'] == "es") { //if a cookie value or a $_GET value is set for Spanish, then set $language to 1... You may also want to set a cookie under here, so people's language could be remembered. (hence he cookie check in the if )
$language = 1;
}
else {
$language = 0;
}
$q = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM posts WHERE lang = '{$language}' ORDER BY post_time DESC LIMIT 0,5"); //this assumes your database is set up to have a lang column for language (0 for English, 1 for Spanish) and that post_time is a column in which the time the post was made is stored.

while($r = mysql_fetch_assoc($q)) {
//echo out each post and what not ;p
}