website with two language

[walkerdigest]

I want to code a website with two language (one of them is english) how can I manage that? thanks

 

[MakeItSo]

tons of possibilities.
What have you so far?

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[walkerdigest]

I am starting from scratch. what would be the easiest way? I will have navigator, announcements, slade, text in the website

 

[MakeItSo]

1.) what is the other language going to be? you need to know in order to use the correct encoding for both your content files and your script session, e.g. utf-8 / 65001

2.) you could have all your content stored in language subfolders as text or html snippets which are then dynamically loaded into your ASP framework depending on a combo box choice / flag click etc.

3.) what is a "slade"? I just checked my translation dictionary, it won't tell

4.) of course you can do it all by yourself but you might also consider using a web cms solution like typo3, contao, drupal or joomla

If you have a variable holding your language choice and name your subfolders holding the localised content in the same manner, you your output portion could look like this:

<%
set fso=Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
pfad=Server.MapPath(language) & "\" & "index.htm"
Set f = fso.GetFile(pfad)
set ts=f.OpenAsTextStream
Inhalt=ts.ReadAll
response.write Inhalt
%>

[navy]"We had to turn off that service to comply with the CDA Bill."[/navy]
- The Bastard Operator From Hell

 

[walkerdigest]

1) encoding will be 8859-9

2)if I understand correctly there will be /tr and /english subfolder. For example in /english subfolder it holds texts in English. what about menu titles? slide titles?

3) it should be slide.

4) I should have session variable or cookie to tell me that I have a language selection??

 

[ChrisHirst]

Read the part of the of the URL that tells you the language, show content from a database that is already translated.

Chris.

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