Question

What’s the best way (to avoid modifying repeated code) to building multilingual web pages?
I know how to build a multilingual web page without having to modify CSS and Javascript files.
But I can’t think of a neat solution for HTML and Php files. Because if I have HTML or Php files for each language, I would have to modify each one if, for instance, I add an extra div or other element.
I was thinking to have something like this:

<div id="multilingual div">
<p><?php echo($multilingual-paragraph); ?></p>
</div>

(So, even if I modify these elements, I will just do it once, because the text that is in other language will show up from the variable).

I don’t know Php, so I don’t know how to tell Php to display a different variable according to the language (I think it has something to do with IF conditions)

Is this a good way of creating multilingual web pages or there are other methods?

(So with this

Answer 1

Check out the gettext() function. You don’t really need to build different files for different languages. Altough, you’ll have to struggle with the translation files.