Question

I have been working on a site from last 2 years.
Now my client want’s make it bilingual, with English and Chinese.

Any idea what should I do for it?

Answer 1

I had to do this and since you are working with PHP, I recommend gettext

http://php.net/manual/en/book.gettext.php

And here’s an article to get you started on it

http://mel.melaxis.com/devblog/2005/08/06/localizing-php-web-sites-using-gettext/

The benefit of gettext is that the translator never has to touch the code. Rather, the translator works by translating .po files with Poedit ( http://www.poedit.net/ ). You place those .po files in your locale directories from which php-gettext accesses and uses it to replace the strings. Have fun and good luck, I got it to work pretty well