Best way to store keys for multilingual sites

Hello,
I'll start a multilingual site and so I wonder what is the most efficient way, the quickest and easiest way for translators to translate the site.

Many CMS use tables array (but I think it's a heavy can?)
Others, such as Wordpress and Drupal use I think GetText
Joomla uses files .ini (maybe the files .ini are the tables could fast PHP?)
or file. xml and still in a database (which I think is the heaviest)
Have you any advice in choosing?
and what do you use?

Regards,
Peter

 

Include text values into arrays in seperate files.(PHP)

-Alex

 

Thank you for your reply but I still await further advice

 

Use this method, make a function that selects a file, for example "Spanish.php" if the language chosen is Spanish and in Spanish.php Have for example....$LANG['SiteTitle'] = "Spanish title here";

Then, everytime you echo out text, use the function you made.

E.g

echo Translate($Var);

 

Hello,
Thank you for your explanations
I do not use function but I create a small script for this

<?php
$lang = (isset($_REQUEST['lang'])) &&  file_exists('/var/www/lang/'.$_REQUEST['lang'].'.php') ? include '/var/www/lang/'.$_REQUEST['lang'].'.php' : include '/var/www/lang/en.php';

PHP:

Otherwise the link to create an array
maybe a class like with constant this is

<?php
class lang {
const __KEY_LANG = 'My Language Key';
const __KEY_LANG2 = 'My Language Key 2';
}

PHP: