sent in
this email which documents how they modified WebDb to provide on-the-fly
translation....
In writing infopages
for China, I faced the problem that some services needed to be
served in four different languages.
What we provide is a database of addresses of
translators who specialize in translating
Chinese to their own languages.
Thus, in serving our data, we needed to present
Chinese speaking people with Chinese results,
Germans speaking people with German results, and all the
rest in English.
Because of the flexibility of WebDb, I only need to
maintain one data file. My master setup file has been
modified with a "Translation Table" and references to this table.
Then I made 3 copies of the setup file and changed the contents
of the "Translation Table".
The idea is to make as many references to this "Translation
Table", as possible. Not only are the actual database contents
translated, but also the header, footer, and hyperlinks
to different language versions of other pages are changed as well.
Click here for
the actual code which makes it work!
