Changing Language.

[dragonfly_7456]

How would I change the language that a site is displayed in using php? I've seen it done on many sites, and I need to have a little link at the top of my site saying "Russian Version" or "English Version", and when a user clicks, the url stays the same, but the file being retrieved is in a different language.

Any ideas on how? And how advaced is it to do something like this?

[Mike]

There is no translation function, you have to do this yourself.

[Owen]

See how they do it at php.net http://www.php.net/source.php?url=/my.php

Owen

[flaimo]

http://www.sitepointforums.com/showt...threadid=99792

[dragonfly_7456]

Oh, how would I go about doing this swithch?

How do I have a set of links that will change the text size of the document

A wonderful example is at http://getthelook.adampolselli.com/corporate.php

[Dr Livingston]

Client side Javascript - cannot be done w/out page reload using server-side.


Very easy to do with the DOM btw

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# your link for example
<a href="index...." target="_self">....</a>
 
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# Javascript
var aHref = document.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
# refering to first link within document only
aHref.onClick = function() {
# untested
this.style.fontFamily = "24px verdana";
} 

It's been a while since I've really used Javascript and the DOM though this above would be the general idea - if you need more help, post your thread in the Javascript forum as well.

[dragonfly_7456]

That makes sense... I was just curious though. Don't have any practical reasons.

[dragonfly_7456]

Whats DOM?

[Dr Livingston]

Document Object Model -

A standard method of one thing working with Javascript for example, would also work with another language, for example:

# Javascript
var Para = document.getElementsByTagName('p');
alert(Para.length); 

Would alert to you the number of <p> tags in your document, thus you can then reference them using the DOM to change them effectively, yes ?

It also means that what DOM script you write for IE, would work in Netscape6+ and Mozilla and Opera6 (mostly) w/out any changes to actual script - not including the event object which Microsoft so selfishly left out of IE all together in favour of their own crude methods of detecting events.

Bloody Bast.... Ahem

It's well smart anyway and most people nowadays are all for it.

[dragonfly_7456]

Technical speach... *brain hurts* ...