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Asked: 2026-06-10T20:02:09+00:00

I need to create website that will support multiple languages, however I never done

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I need to create website that will support multiple languages, however I never done so and I need help with creating DB for my application.

Website will be commerce, so let’s take ITEM table as an example. Only thing that I could quickly come up to is this model, but I don’t think it’s good since Language table is tied to Item table but I will have Company table as well and others maybe too.

Item
    ID
    Price

Language
    ID
    ItemID
    Language (example: en-US)
    Field (example: title)
    Value (example: Good Title)

Can someone help me design good database that will support multiple languages?

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  1. Editorial Team

    There are multiple ways on how to store multilanguage data in the database, I usually do it like this:

    Item
  ID
  price
  title_translation_key_id (is a TranslationKey foreign key)
  desc_translation_key_id (is a TranslationKey foreign key)

TranslationKey
  ID
  key (string)

Translation
  ID
  translation_key_id (is a TranslationKey foreign key)
  content (string)
  language_id (is a Language foreign key)

Language 
  ID
  code

    How to retrieve the data?

    You can either work with sub-selects or if you database doesn’t perform well, you can generate language specific tables out of it.

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