I was thinking about the best way to combine templates and language files.
Shall i keep the text/sentences/expressions inside each template or keep it separate?

- If i keep the template with the text i need to set 1 template version for each language (if you change tamplate A structure for 1 language you need to change it to all the other languages).

PHP Code:

[english]
$template = '<div>
<span class="little">This is Text</span>
</div>';
[spanish]
 $template = '<div>
 <span class="little">Esto eres texto</span>
 </div>';
..
.. 


- If i keep it separate its more efficient yet its very user unfriendly because people will see only references to the texts and it might become confusing.

PHP Code:

$template = '<div>
<span class="little">'.$text['342'].'</span>
</div>'; 


A dilemma

You could just place all the words for each language in an array and make the user say what language they want. For example:

PHP Code:

$lang[english][hello] = "Hello";
$lang[french][hello] = "bonjour";
$lang[spanish][hello] = "hola";

// User defines what language
$language = "english";

// Say hello
echo $lang[$language][hello]; 


Whats the difference from your post and my 2nd example? o_o

Mine uses an deep array, your uses numbers :P

*[sarcasm] Blatantly did not just guess the answer to your post *

Lol, i would i want to write a text code for thousands of language lines? a number is way easier...

anyways, guess i will have to compromise friendliness to achieve efficiency.

I have a couple of principles for supporting multiple languages:

1) Load only what's necessary, and
2) Reference using the language code (see http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/stru...g.html#h-8.1.1 ). For example, "en", "fr", "es"

That said, it is generally not necessary to load a translation for every language -- most of the time the primary language of the site visitor suffices. To accomplish this, a modification of the multidimensional array above suffices:

Filename: en.php

PHP Code:

$lang['hello'] = 'Hello'; 


Filename: fr.php

PHP Code:

$lang['hello'] = 'Bonjour'; 


Filename: es.php

PHP Code:

$lang['hello'] = 'Hola'; 


PHP Code:

// User defines what language
$language = "en";

require_once($language.'.php');
// Say hello
echo $lang['hello']; 


In my sites, I generally have multiple pages, so I create a core language file (as shown above) which includes text which shows up on more than 1 page and then a language file for each page which includes the text for that page which is not in the core file. This minimizes the amount of memory necessary to create each page.

Text codes already exist... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes

You didnt follow my topic: combination of languages and templates..you only refer to languages...

Originally Posted by JeremyMiller

I have a couple of principles for supporting multiple languages:

1) Load only what's necessary, and
2) Reference using the language code (see http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/stru...g.html#h-8.1.1 ). For example, "en", "fr", "es"

That said, it is generally not necessary to load a translation for every language -- most of the time the primary language of the site visitor suffices. To accomplish this, a modification of the multidimensional array above suffices:

Filename: en.php

PHP Code:

$lang['hello'] = 'Hello'; 


Filename: fr.php

PHP Code:

$lang['hello'] = 'Bonjour'; 


Filename: es.php

PHP Code:

$lang['hello'] = 'Hola'; 


PHP Code:

// User defines what language
$language = "en";

require_once($language.'.php');
// Say hello
echo $lang['hello']; 


In my sites, I generally have multiple pages, so I create a core language file (as shown above) which includes text which shows up on more than 1 page and then a language file for each page which includes the text for that page which is not in the core file. This minimizes the amount of memory necessary to create each page.

Well, what do you want to do with a template? I usually create 1 file and include the language stuff in there -- this code

PHP Code:

// User defines what language
$language = "en";

require_once($language.'.php');
// Say hello
echo $lang['hello']; 


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