Multi-Langage website

[MikeC]

I’m not sure if I have posted this in the right place so feel free to move it if it should be better somewhere else.

Here is my problem:

I have quoted someone for a fairly simple 10 page website, they seemed happy with the quote, there isn’t much dynamic content at all so I gave them a pretty good price I think.
However they have just emailed me saying that they need the website in both English and Spanish and would like me to adjust the quote accordingly.

What is the easiest/best way to do this? I was probably going to use WordPress for the whole site, does that make things easier?

Thanks in advance!
Mike

[Historical Forums User]

That’s a tough one.

If I had to get something up and running by this weekend I personally would probably attempt two wordpress installations and have the spanish version of the site on it’s own sub domain es.mywebsite.com.

I have no doubt there is a far easier way of doing this using PHP and someone has probably already done it. But that would take a lot of time to find, evaluate, adjust etc etc. Depends on your budget and how much time you’ve got.

[MikeC]

Thanks for your replies.

I don’t think the site really needs a CMS, other than to make it easy for the customer to edit later.

The only changing data will be a page that is changed every month, last months contents will be moved to a different archive type section. And there will be a counter that will have to be updated manually(maybe from a text file that both languages can access?).

Other than that, pretty much all the site will be static content. Hence why I thought it would be best to have two seperate sites in two seperate folders/subdomains.

[ikthius]

I have not read all of this:

http://webtips.dan.info/language.html

also, if you want, just thinking here never tried or tested….

you could add in a peice of php to test, the language preference, and have the php load from a certain file.
http://blog.sorcellerieweb.net/post/200 … s-with-PHP

http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/clansuite/we … iew=markup

………………………………………..

If your going to have a static site but for both languages, then I would have them set apart in different directories: http://www.abc.com/en http://www.abc.co.uk/es

but have a generic index.php to start with:
in that test for header language and include the correct directory for the language: e,g:
$lang = substr($_SERVER, 0, 2);
if($lang == "es"){
include(‘www.abc.com/es/index.php’);
}
else if($lang == "en"){
include(‘www.abc.com/en/index.php’);
}

ik

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