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Asked: 2026-05-27T15:06:19+00:00

I am working on a project and there are going to be 3 different

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I am working on a project and there are going to be 3 different languages: English, French and Spanish. This will be defined when the user signs up.

Now in my config file I have the following:

define("DEFAULT_SLOGAN", "The default slogan will go here.");

Until I started realizing that I needed to accept different languages.

The user has an assigned language code (EN, FR, SP). How would I go about having different language strings for each page? Would I need to have something like this:

define("DEFAULT_SLOGAN_EN", "Slogan in english");
define("DEFAULT_SLOGAN_FR", "Slogan in french");
define("DEFAULT_SLOGAN_SP", "Slogan in spanish");

And for each string just have 3 different versions of it? Not too sure the best way to approach this.

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  1. Editorial Team

    A better approach would be to create

    • locale_definitions_EN.php containing

      define(“DEFAULT_SLOGAN”, “The english default slogan will go here.”);

    • local_definitions_FR.php containing

      define(“DEFAULT_SLOGAN”, “The french default slogan will go here.”);

    etc. and then do something like 

    include "locale_definitions_$userLocale.php";

    This has the advantage, that you don’t need the memory to hold the unused other language constants.

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