Question

Say I have a simple table, named content with the following fields: id, title, html, modified_date

I also have a table called language, with only the fields id and name

What would be the best way to make my content table multilingual? I thought about using 2 unique identifiers, but i’m not sure how to implement that, and will auto_increments still work when i have multiple unique ids?

(Also I don’t like losing my single id-field as a unique identifier, cause i have set up a model in php that allows me to easily create objects based on the table-name and the id.)

Answer 1

I would use two tables for this. Using “pages” as an example:

Table: pages
Fields:

• id
• title (Title in English, used for referencing)
• last_modified

Table: page_content
Fields:

• page_id (Foreign key)
• language_id (Foreign key. Alternatively, language_code)
• title
• content