I want to use 2 different languages at my site for my first project, is there a course where you guys explain it.

Hello from Germany Lotte :) What did you learn so far? Do you have any experience with PHP? Localizing your website is quite complex for just a beginner project.

Yes, you can use JavaScript for localization too. But I recommend you to learn the basics first and try to solve this problem later on.

Hoi Lotte Bloem,

Als je dat nog niet gedaan hebt kan je een "how to make a website" course volgen, daar leer je HTML en CSS (persoonlijk ben ik nog niet helemaal klaar met deze course, maar ik raad hem echt aan!). Link: https://teamtreehouse.com/library/how-to-make-a-website

Ik hoop dat het lukt. groeten,

Thale van der Sluijs

Lotte,

Are you wanting to make a web-site that uses Dutch and English? If you are, use HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Basically, you would be duplicating your code with one version being in Dutch and one version in English. You could use a button or link to have your visitors select the web pages with the language they prefer.

Best Wishes,

Mark Casavantes

Moritz,

You provided NO solution. Are you considering a translator? Many times a translator is not perfect. Otherwise all text would need to be written twice for each language or as many times as a the website would have languages.

Tell me how you make one change and changes are made to each spoken language without a translator.

<h1> Hola </h1> <h1> Hello </h1>

After your comment Moritz, I looked around to see how others write multi-language websites and found that you either have to use a translator or write a website for each spoken language. In looking around I found that a recommendation was to have a gateway webpage that would direct a visitor to each spoken language website.

http://nationbuilder.com/how_i_create_multilingual_websites

I am familiar with trying to not repeat code, but I do not see how you can avoid a duplicate site for each spoken language. If you change the text in Dutch then you have to change the text in English, or any other spoken languages you have.

If anyone has a better solution I would love to hear it.

Thank you,

Mark Casavantes

Hi Mark, I just didn't provide a solution as it might is to complex if you just begin to code. Automated translations in my opinion are pretty bad, so I would not recommend to use it. Basically the right way to translate a page is to write all your views and then write files containing a dictionary with keys and values. In your example you could write a key called "greeting" with the value in the given language. Then you'd call a method that fetches the text and writes it dynamically inside your h1 tag. If you do so, you'd just have to write the text in each language and not write the entire site twice or more.

Therefore I asked her if she has any background in PHP or JavaScript which makes this solution pretty easy to do. If you want to see an example: Laravel handles localization like this.

Also I didn't want to offend you with my comment. I just wanted to say that this should be generaly avoided.

Hi Moritz,

Thank you for your response. We are trying to help Lotte, who I assume is a new programmer. I looked at your Laravel example and looked at some other sources and I agree that Laravel is a solution to her problem by using "en" , "de" "nl" and other language choosers. I believe "nl" is the chooser for Dutch. I see that there are 53 available languages using Laravel. I appreciate learning something new. I am not offended. Now Lotte has two options she can choose from.

Thank you,

Mark Casavantes