Question

The question is as follows : what’s the best way to handle different database language contents? Suppose you have a shopping cart whose products may have several languages, what would be the best approach to build the db scheme?

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Answer 1

I would store a unique translation key in the table, and then either have another table or perhaps translation files so that you can reference the translation from the key.

table product:

id: 15
name: product.foo_widget
attr: ...
... etc

table translation:

lang: en
key: product.foo_widget
trans: Foo Widget