Question

I am working on a website and the requirement is to make it in two languages i.e. icelandic and english.
just like facebook and other google, if a user selects a language, then the site is translated in that language.
I am not allowed to use google translator.
Any other way to do this in Php

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Well, I never did it, but i did think about it :), for me i have to do something like this from scratch,

First, do not echo your String that will be displayed to your clients hardcoded, create a dictionary, this dictionary can be in any format, be it php file, xml file, json. You can also extend the functionality by adding Database in it. The main idea is to create a dictionary having all your messages that will be displayed to the user in all the languages you want to display it

consider if you do it using normal PHP FIle, use OOP built class say known as Message, then as attribute to the class add the several languages that you have to use and also some setters and getters

e.g.

Message
{
   english;
   french;
   .....
}

then in PHP, when you echo your messages, try to get the language you want to use, and then
do something like this

echo message.getEnglishMessage();

Look, I’ve been very generic, now decide on the type of file that you’ll use and build the dictionary

Hopes it helps 🙂