how to create a template to support diffent languages?

lilili · Joined: 03 Apr 2008 Posts: 2

I am doing a project, in which user first selects a languages,
and then the same html form written with selected language will be displayed. i.e. a user can decide to show the same form in English, French, and so on.

What I can think is I need to create a template html form
and several text xml files writen in different language.
then maybe I need to create a php file to parse the corresponding text xml file based on the language selected by users, and then combine the result to template form.

Since I am not familar with html and php, I do not know how to implent it in details. Can anybody give me a very simple example about how to create a template html and how to compine the parsed result to the template?

Thanks.

lostboy · Joined: 02 May 2004 Posts: 5128 Location: toronto, canada

The way that phpmyadmin does it, is to hold each language in an file...all the field names are there and the correct language file gets included based on a user setting

When the page is generated it just pulls in the correct language file, and those values are plugged into the html being generated
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