the best way to make codeigniter website multi-language. calling from lang arrays depends on lang session?

Question

I\'m researching hours and hours, but I could not find any clear, efficient way to make it :/

I have a codeigniter base website in English and I have to add a Polish

Answer 1

I am using such code in config.php:

$lang = 'ru'; // this language will be used if there is no any lang information from useragent (for example, from command line, wget, etc...

if (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'])) $lang = substr($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'],0,2);
$tmp_value = $_COOKIE['language'];
if (!empty($tmp_value)) $lang = $tmp_value;
switch ($lang)
{
    case 'ru':
        $config['language'] = 'russian';
        setlocale(LC_ALL,'ru_RU.UTF-8'); 
        break;
        case 'uk':
        $config['language'] = 'ukrainian';
        setlocale(LC_ALL,'uk_UA.UTF-8'); 
                break;
        case 'foo':
        $config['language'] = 'foo';
        setlocale(LC_ALL,'foo_FOO.UTF-8'); 
                break;
        default:
        $config['language'] = 'english';
        setlocale(LC_ALL,'en_US.UTF-8'); 
        break;
}

.... and then i'm using usualy internal mechanizm of CI

o, almost forget! in views i using buttons, which seting cookie 'language' with language, prefered by user.

So, first this code try to detect "preffered language" setted in user`s useragent (browser). Then code try to read cookie 'language'. And finaly - switch sets language for CI-application