Multi language Website

Translating with Google or any other tool, would be a good idea if it worked. Unfortunatly, automatic translation is not accurate at all, even for a single word.

The translation needs to be done in the context and meaning of your site content, which means it has to adapt. No public translator, has the power to do that.

I take for example a site about IT in which the word Toolbar has a very specific meaning, proper to IT area.

With Google, it doesn't even translate
French
Toolbar (should be "boîte à outil" and even if it worked, it would have most probably translated to "Barre d'outil" which is not accurate in the context)

Portuguese
Toolbar (same remark applies, shoud be "barra de ferramentas").

I believe the best you can do, if you want people to understand what you mean is to make XML files with translated content of your site.

 

Have you solved your problem ? Did google translater help you ? or maybe you still want to have your own translater..
create file lang_eng.php:

<?
$lang['January'] = "January";
$lang['February'] = "February";
$lang['March'] = "March";
$lang['April'] = "April";
$lang['May'] = "May";
$lang['June'] = "June";
$lang['July'] = "July";
$lang['August'] = "August";
$lang['September'] = "September";
$lang['October'] = "October";
$lang['November'] = "November";
$lang['December'] = "December";

$lang['Name'] = 'Name';
$lang['Message'] = 'Message';
$lang['Subject'] = 'Subject';
$lang['Date'] = 'Date';
$lang['Time'] = 'Time';
$lang['Comment'] = 'Comment';
$lang['Category'] = 'Category';
$lang['Categories'] = 'Categories';
$lang['Email_Add'] = 'Email Address';
$lang['Email'] = 'Email';
$lang['Home_Page'] = 'Home Page';
$lang['Home'] = 'Home';
$lang['Password'] = 'Password';
$lang['Search'] = 'Search';
$lang['Reenter_password'] = 'Reenter Password';
$lang['Edit'] = 'Edit';
$lang['Del'] = 'Delete';
$lang['Error'] = "Error";
$lang['Notice'] = "Notice "; // $lang['Msg_no_mth'] = "Month Not Selected";
$lang['Msg_no_date'] = "Date Not Selected";
$lang['Msg_no_cat'] = "Category Not Selected";
$lang['Msg_Del_error3'] = "Warning : Do you want to delete ?";
$lang['Yes'] = "Yes";
...
you can add your labels here like those
...


?>

 

If you must do it that way, at least make it reasonably pretty

$lang = array(

'January'     => 'January',
'February'    => 'February',
'March'       => 'March',

);

PHP:

 

see begoodbe.com for a simple script