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Does anyone know how i can translate a website into a different laungage and have it in a tab. so for eample english = metallicwarfare.com and polish would be metallicwarfare.com/pl/ and would be tabed so when i click polish it would take me to that. there is programes out there but they are crap really. and i heard i can do it through mysql database. if someone knowes the lugnage and tells me then what do i do with it? any quidence please

I don't know about the database side, but in terms of getting the site translated I think the only way to get it done accurately is to have it translated by a proper person/company rather than a program.

yea. i know the people who will translate it i just dont know how to apply it

Ah, I see. Could you not just have two separate versions of the site, linked together? I guess there's probably a better way of doing it though.

well the site is a game so id have to link all users and so forth together and all the logs and stuff which would take deades lol. So i dont know how to do this though. maybe your right im not sure = why i came here to find out but thanks for trying though. i was looking for some guidence maybe a step by step on how to do it?

Hey, MW. You have my MSN ID, don't you. And this is exactly the kind of stuff that I'm good at.

I have extensive knowledge with dynamic language content for websites... Just one example. IM me or you can also send an email....

hmm pm me on msn then. I dont want it so its english and like german in one page but when they click the flag or a drop down menu it translates to a lauges

translators charge quite a lot don't they?
Luckily, if I need anything translated,
my cousin just did 3 language degrees

OK, here's a quick explanation of how I've done it:

Every visitor to the site gets new PHP session. In this session I store a 'lang' variable which defaults to english. Then, for each output string you call a function (ex: "getString('key')") to get the string from the right databank table.

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echo("<div class=\"head\">".getString('head')."</div>"); 

Then I have a databank with tables for each language ('strings_en', 'strings_de', etc.) or inline files ('strings_en.php', 'strings_de.php', etc). The getString function then looks like so (for the database method):

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function getString($id_string) {
   $query=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM strings_".$_SESSION['lang']." WHERE id_string='".$id_string."'");
    $row=mysql_fetch_object($query);
    return $row->text;
} 

Or you could have a file for each language in which the language strings are defined in an array:

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<?php
$strings['head']="welcome";
$strings['link']="link";
?>

Then you could include the right file one using the session variable:

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include("strings_".$_SESSION['lang'].".php"); 

and use the array to display the right string using the array key:

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echo("<div class=\"head\">".$strings['head']."</div>");