[Phpwebsite-developers] Multi-lingual sites

[Todd O. <to...@da...>]

As an ongoing project we should think about a better way to make phpWebSite
multi-lingual on demand.  We are only multi-lingual before installation.
I'd like to see the user profile containing his/her default language
preference.

Large case statements are too slow.

phpmyadmin using the following language include file scheme:

english.inc.php
$strAPrimaryKey  = "A primary key has been added on ";
$strAccessDenied  = "Access denied";

german.inc.php
$strAPrimaryKey  = "Ein Primarschlssel wurde fur folgendes Feld hinzugefegt:
";
$strAccessDenied   = "Zugriff verweigert.";

Has anyone used this many DEFINE statements in an include file?  Were there
any performance issues?

The php code would have to pull the user's session_id and get his/her
language preference from the user database before including the appropriate
language "define" file.

Who would like to toss ideas in on this one?

--Todd