How to translate into other languages my web page?

Question

How can I translate my web pages? Actually what technology or what scripting-if require- should be used? For info; I have all translated text. But I do not want to create something like clone site for other language. I used just javascript -including jquery .

Answer 1

Just using JavaScript...

<script type="text/javascript">

// JSON-formatted, potentially read from a database
var article = {
    title: {
      en_US: "Article Title",
      fr_FR: "Titre de l\'Article"
    },
    content: {
      en_US: "Content of the Article.",
      fr_FR: "Contenu de l\'Article."
    }
}

// simple function to write the info to the page
function get_i18n(item, lang) {
    document.write(article[item][lang]);
}
</script>

<!-- English Version -->
<div class="story">
   <h1 class="title"><script>get_i18n('title','en_US');</script></h1>
   <p class="content"><script>get_i18n('content','en_US');</script></p>
</div>

<!-- French Version -->
<div class="story">
   <h1 class="title"><script>get_i18n('title','fr_FR');</script></h1>
   <p class="content"><script>get_i18n('content','fr_FR');</script></p>
</div>

Please Note: This isn't a very graceful solution. I'm sure there's a prettier method...

Answer 2

You actually mean "how to build multi lingual website" as you already have the "translated text" as you call it.

One way is to put the text inside containers then using client side code change the containers contents to the proper text according to selected language, having arrays with translated text in each language.

If you have server side language at your disposal it would be much better though - do you have such thing?