what is the best method to build “multilingual” script in php?

Question

I am building a website and it need to be in 7 languages? I was wondering if there is a good practice can be applied to get multilingual php script?

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Answer 1

You may find this article on the topic an interesting read:

http://cubicspot.blogspot.com/2011/12/cross-platform-multilingual-support-in.html

The author advocates a "lazy programmer" strategy - do it only if you need multilingual stuff - and seems to recommend the PHP array approach with IANA language codes. The article is kind of vague though.