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Help on changing the page language without changing the current page (PHP)

Answer 1

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Brad F Jacobs 2010-07-25 00:05:33

Thanks for your answer, here how i proceed, I define the language variables ( define('INDEX_TITLE','Welcome ....'); ), and i have a script which checks for the get variable and include the proper translation file. (en, lang.en.php)...

jartaud 2010-07-25 00:25:32

With the caveat that then each language version of a page would exist under the same URL. Serving different content under the same URL is bad for SEO, since either the alternate language versions are never indexed, or it's up to luck which version gets indexed. The URL *should* contain the language if it's a publicly accessible resource. For something like member-only pages it doesn't matter that much.

deceze 2010-07-25 00:26:38

Thanks buddy, it's a good point, but if we care about SEO and we need a multilanguage site is there anything we can do?

jartaud 2010-07-25 00:40:30

@jartaud Yes, give each site its own URL: `/en/page`, `/fr/page`, `/page?lang=en`, `/page?lang=fr`, `example.com/page`, `example.fr/page`… anything you like.

deceze 2010-07-25 06:19:54

@deceze I dont i understand since the pages are created dynamically.

jartaud 2010-07-29 18:39:53

@jartaud That doesn't have much to do with it. End users and search engines don't know or care *how* pages are created, only at which URL they are. The URL schema doesn't prescribe *how* pages are generated, or not generated. Try googling for "pretty URLs" as a start.

deceze 2010-07-29 22:50:40

Answer 2

+1 A:

Running html_entity_decode will convert those HTML entities back into ampersands.

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.html-entity-decode.php

erjiang 2010-07-25 00:07:38

Thanks for you answer. It does the job.

jartaud 2010-07-25 00:21:03

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