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<?php
    $GLOBAL['langs']=array(
       'en'=>array(
          'Welcome to my site!'=>'Welcome to my site!'
       ),
       'it'=>array(
          'Welcome to my site!'=>'Benvenuto sul mio sito web!'
       )
    );

    function _($text){
       $lang=$_COOKIE['lang'];
       return $GLOBAL['langs'][$text];
    }
?><html><head><?php

    echo '<title>'._('Welcome to my site!').'</title>';

?></head><body>

    ....

</body></html>

Christian Sciberras 2010-09-15 06:40:47

It's `$GLOBALS`, not `$GLOBAL`.

Lekensteyn 2010-09-15 06:44:11

Using `_()` might be a problem if your PHP has *gettext* support enabled as this is an alias to `gettext()`, which is also a method for localization. http://php.net/manual/en/function.gettext.php

Archimedix 2010-09-15 07:04:14

Answer 2

A:

If you want to translate 'a whole page' to any language, you could use Google Translate.

Lekensteyn 2010-09-15 06:43:45

Answer 3

A:

While Christian's answer will do the trick there's a more cleaner and efficient way to achieve your needs: gettext is PHP's built-in function for internationalization.

fabrik 2010-09-15 06:44:22

Answer 4

A:

Zend Translate is a library exactly build for this.

Gettext is not thread-safe. PHP supports only gettext and native array. Zend_Translate supports several source formats, including those supported by PHP, and other formats including TMX and CSV files.

Elzo Valugi 2010-09-15 07:11:48

Unfortunately the guys of the Zend-Framework don't even know themselves which components are related with each other. So best practice is to install the whole Zend-Framework. Which means very much files and a slight Overkill I would say. But for Applications built upon Zend-Framework, Zend_Translate is a good solution, of course.

faileN 2010-09-15 07:24:59

I disagree. You can check the dependencies here, both to PHP packages and internal ZF. http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/requirements.introduction.html

Elzo Valugi 2010-09-15 07:31:49

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