How Are You Accomplishing Your i18n?

cobrabyte asks: "My team has recently been given the task of implementing internationalization (i18n) in our MySQL databases (PHP-interfaced). Essentially, for every article X, we need it presented in any number of languages (once translated). As we were working on gathering the necessary procedures, we were very surprised to find that there's not much organized information regarding i18n using MySQL and PHP. Is the topic of i18n too new to garner any usable info?"

Comments

Too new?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, the concept of many people speaking different languages has been around six months to a year at most. It's far too new a concept for something like PHP to have dealt with.

What's the problem? For the dynamic data, store extra fields/rows, for the static text use multiple templates or the gettext functions, and for the images, use separate subdirectories like /en/images, /de/images, etc.

This is really basic stuff. It's like saying "is the concept of 'adding' too new for PHP to have dealt with because I can't find an article on adding in PHP for me to copy & paste from?" Read TFM and apply common sense. That's all you need.

Why?

[nurb432]

Those stupid langauge dont count, so why support them?

If you cant speak/read English, then screw you.

Hell, if you arent an American, screw you. Even better.

Ya, mod me down. I dont care. Ill be the one laughing when your job is outsourced. You people cant hide from the truth forever.