How to make a small website multilingual?

Question

I have this really tiny (static) site, that is basically just my online business card and I want to have it in English and German. I detect the browser language and also let the user chose manually; so I have the right $lang variable ready.

My question is how are the multiple languages best implemented (or loaded)? Right now I do this with PHP switch statements but I feel this is not proper at all. My next guess is to use XMLs, one for every language, then load the right one but I wonder if there is a more clean, simple and proper way to do this; meaning easy to maintain and extend, easy to understand, compliant with standards and fast.

Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

Have an array with all the texts, and place them in seperate files (one for German, one for English):

<? return array(
       'contact' => 'Kontakt'
);

Load that array and use it to display the text.

If you're using a CMS (content management system) there are other options.

Answer 2

标准的PHP方式是使用gettext的功能作为解释和的.po /的.mo文件在这里