Multilanguage Support?

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by gobbly2100, Dec 19, 2007.

  1. #1
    Hey,

    I am running an english website and I would love to have some kind of script that people can select a button and it will translate the site or at least that page to the language of their choice.

    The site I would like to do this for is the MMOFPS link in my signature.

    The idea is I want various flags which people click and it translates the page the best it can.

    Any ideas people?
     
    gobbly2100, Dec 19, 2007 IP
  2. nicangeli

    nicangeli Peon

    Messages:
    828
    Likes Received:
    23
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #2
    nicangeli, Dec 19, 2007 IP
  3. -bank-

    -bank- Well-Known Member

    Messages:
    674
    Likes Received:
    37
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    120
    #3
    Sounds a good idea, so you can start getting traffic from other regions, although a translation never tends to be quite correct, the grammar in most cases won't read well; unless you know another language it won't ever be quite right. By the looks of things the idea nicangeli provided will solve the easiest solution.
     
    -bank-, Dec 19, 2007 IP
  4. techrn

    techrn Peon

    Messages:
    81
    Likes Received:
    2
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #4
    We've used Worldlingo and it seems to work well so far, has the flags etc. Depends on if you want a machine translated site or not.
     
    techrn, Dec 19, 2007 IP
  5. martinmarzejon

    martinmarzejon Peon

    Messages:
    20
    Likes Received:
    0
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #5
    Good idea, I had a similar challenge a few months back, although this was for a brand new site. I decided on using the Cake PHP framework since among other things it offers support for internationalization.

    The implementation of such a feature, if it's your first time, is quite a daunting one, but well worth it.
     
    martinmarzejon, Dec 19, 2007 IP