Managing a php multi language website with constants

Question

I would like to know what you think about the way I deal with the PHP multi-language feature for my website.

First, I recover a variable $config['UserLang'] which contains the language. I recover it from the $_SESSION or from the database if the user is connected and has specified a language.

$config['UserLang'] = 'fr';

Then I open a file containing constants of the language:

require_once ('include/langs/'.$config['UserLang'].'.inc.php');

In the directory include/langs I have as many files as available languages, for example: en.inc.php, fr.inc.php and es.inc.php

And for example, the content of en.inc.php will be:

define("LANG_HOME_home", "Home");
define("LANG_HOME_contact", "Contact us");
define("LANG_HOME_phone", "Our phone");
define("LANG_HOME_address", "Our address");
define("LANG_HOME_desc", "Some description of the company <br> Another line about the company");

And then, when I display the DOM:

echo '
<div class="pad-t-20 txt-c">
    '.LANG_HOME_desc.'
</div>';

It's working fine bu is there anything I could to to improve it? Is there any other way which would be more conventional?

Thanks.

this (a small i18n-class) might by helpful: github.com/Philipp15b/php-i18n — Jeff
– Jeff, Commented Dec 11, 2016 at 15:33

jnemecz · Accepted Answer · 2016-12-11 15:56:15Z

1

Don't reinvent the wheel and use Gettext that is de facto standard for i18n and has strong support in PHP and PHP frameworks.

You can see tutorial here or here

answered Dec 11, 2016 at 15:56

jnemecz

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