Steve, A couple of years ago I developed extensions for PHP that sound like what you want. It used ICU http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/ to provide the i18n services for PHP.
First it also provided an override to the Apache mod_mime services to allow it to work like other web servers and allow you to put different language web pages in different subdirectories rather than require a language type on each page. You can have it override just certain types such as .php pages only. This way you can have: ../site/en/contents/page.php ../site/fr/contents/page.php or full locales ../site/en-uk/contents/page.php ../site/en-us/contents/page.php ../site/en-ca/contents/page.php ../site/fr-fr/contents/page.php ../site/fr-ca/contents/page.php It sets the locale on a per transaction bases. It will not only work with Unicode with ICU but it will also work in code pages. You can have a terminal using Shift-JIS and Japanese pages in EUC and access a UTF-8 database. The same code will work with any code page or Unicode. You can see code that I derived from the ICU interface portion of the code at http://www.xnetinc.com/xiua/ The PHP changes also included a way to support charset more dynamically. Carl > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Vernon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 7:20 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PHP-I18N] Multiple Languages > > > Hiya, > I'm working on my first international PHP project, which is a > site that > displays differently in different languages. So I guess this is > the place to > ask adive. > > Ive done the code with flags etc so people can select the > country and so > the language. But im not sure about the best way to handle the text and > things such as meta tages. > > My origional idea was to have multiple include files named > like uk.php, > french.php with seperate variables for the text parts, or do sommat in XML > which is basically the same. > > I cant find any sources on the net about best ways to do a site like > this. > > Help! > > Thanks, > > Steve > > > -- > PHP Internationalization Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP Internationalization Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
