Two Langauges, One Site...

[gc40]

Greetings all,
I have made a CMS for a site where the admin can update text content on the home page....

They login to the admin panel and enter a title, and the body.

However, the client wants to offer two languages now. One English, and one French..

Therefore, I made the database changes by adding one extra field called body_french and changed body to body_english...
Now the admin enters the body for both english and french...

The problem comes when I display the database information on the home page.
How should I allow the client to select between English and French?

Should I use sessions? Or should I use a simple PHP If else fucntion?

Also, if I use sessions, can someone direct me how to start? I have never used sessions.

[Fou-Lu]

Sessions. And if the users create accounts, store it with the account.
As for changing it, its a simple matter of adding a link for it.
Lets take for example to go to french:
PAGE_NAME?chgLang=french
If you put the control for it in a seperate inclusion file, say global.php:

PHP Code:

<?php
session_start();

if (isset($_GET['chgLang'])):
    $lang = strtolower($_GET['chgLang']);
    switch ($lang):
        case 'french':
            $_SESSION['language'] = 'french';
            break;
        default:
            $_SESSION['language'] = 'english';
    endswitch;
endif;

Sort of idea. You would use the condition that if no session language exists to use english, otherwise use whatever is specified. I assume you got the linguistics already scripted and just need the condition / session usage yeah?