I'm a fairly experienced PHP programmer and I'm new to Dreamweaver MX 2004.

Presently I do have a multilingual site running, all done with PHP. I'd like to switch my design to a combination of DMX and PHP (exktensive use of databases) but I need some tip/info on how to handle internationalisation (i18n). Any suggestion?

Btw; I'm new to this forum, so pls. don't shoot me if I did'nt find this topic elsewhere....<img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile_shy.gif border=0 align=middle>

Edited by - oudrun on 04 Mar 2005 12:25:18

I'd start with CMS (Content Management Systems), and see what they say about multilingual.

The first though that came to mind was - same content table adding multiple rows (one for each language), and they all use a foreign-key to associate which article it's for. It's not a great idea, but I'm trying to get our brains brewin'. <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle>

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Well, thew teqnique I'm using in my PHP solutions is more or less CMS "style". All language depended text is "defined" in constants. Then my pages look for users language and load in language files based on language from browser (or as a request from user).

All database language depended text is stored in a "language" file.

What I was wondering is if there is some "rules" you follow while designing this in Dreamweaver? I belive there are more than just me that has to solve problems like this....`<img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

I'd try XML, seems cleanest to me.

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Could you point me in any direction? Examples or description? I'm not very experienced wiyh XML.

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Give www.w3schools.com/xml/ a read, good resource too.

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Tnks. I'll follow up on that and see where it leads me.....<img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile_tongue.gif border=0 align=middle>