Hi guys! How are you ? =D I wanna do something for my website could you help me please ?

I wanna make my website Multilangual, I mean I wanna make the index of my website as a page that the visitor chose in your langage ( between 3 languages) when he clicks on his language he's gonna enter the website..so how can I do it ?

Easiest way to do it would be to have the different files and put them in a lang/ directory in this example im going to use the folowing

lang.en.php - English 
lang.de.php - German
lang.es.php - Spanish

In these file have a setup like so, change the values for the language needed

$lang = array(); 

$lang['Nav_link_home'] = 'Home';
$lang['Nav_link_about'] = 'About';
$lang['Nav_link_contact'] = 'Contact';
$lang['Nav_link_Other'] = 'Other';

Somewhere on your page have a link to the diffrent languages

<a href="lang.php?lang=en">English</a> | <a href="lang.php?lang=de">German</a> |<a href="lang.php?lang=es">Spanish</a>

Now for the php to select the language, call this lang.php

<?php
    session_start();
    if ($_GET['lang']) {
        $lang = str_replace('.', '', $_GET['lang']);
        if (file_exists('lang/lang.'.$lang.'.php')) {
            $_SESSION['lang'] = $lang;
        }
    }
?>

Now for selecting the language in the browser, just place this code in the part of your website that needs to be multi lingual

<?php
    // Suppress the session_log if its already called
    @session_start();
    if ($_SESSION['lang']) {
        $lang = $_SESSION['lang'];
    } else {
        // Set default to english if they have not selected a language yet
        $_SESSION['lang'] = 'en';
        $lang = $_SESSION['lang'];
    }

    require_once('lang/lang.'.$lang.'.php');

?>

Now to print the text use sometthing like these

echo $lang['Nav_link_home'];

echo "<a href='#'>".$lang['Nav_link_home']."</a>";

<?php echo $lang['Nav_link_home']; ?> 

Edited July 24, 201313 yr by D4Y0

Hi Ismael!

 

There are some aspects which you should keep in mind while making your site multilingual. You can try to use Unicode – it provides a unique number for every character and works with all platforms, programs and languages. I will help you a lot to adapt your site to many languages. Also don't forget to adapt your content – work with localization and optimization.

 

Good luck!

Hi Ismael!

 

There are some aspects which you should keep in mind while making your site multilingual. You can try to use Unicode – it provides a unique number for every character and works with all platforms, programs and languages. I will help you a lot to adapt your site to many languages. Also don't forget to adapt your content – work with localization and optimization.

 

Good luck!

Thank you brother but I can change the whole website to another language but this is not the problem.. the problem is that I wanna make my home page as a simple page that you chose in your language, when you chose it, the website gonna run with the same language that you selected ..