Advanced Guestbook - Multilanguage support

Hi all

I'm completely a newbie in PHP. Because of an article here I tried to create the language.php site with the following code:

<?php
$referer = getenv("HTTP_REFERER");
if (empty($referer)) {
$target = "index.php";
}
if(!isset($lang)) {
$lang = "english";
}
SetCookie("lang", "$lang", time()+86400*365);
header("Location: $target");
exit();
?>

and a site called language.htm with the following code:

<body>
<a href="language.php?lang=english">English</a>
<a href="language.php?lang=german">German</a>
</body>

it never worked, the Guestbook is always shown in the default language I set by administration panel.

Is somebody there who can help me? Thank you very much.

BTW: I use the Advanced Guestbook v.2.2 (If I try the new version, I can not access anymore to the mySQL Database

. I don't know why but if you have a solution for the v.2.2 I would be very happy)

Thank you very much
Ralf

For english and german it may work with the following changes (guestbook 2.3.1 !!!):

(I show the previous 2 lines of code)

templates\success-php.htm (starts from line 1)

lib/vars.class.php (starts from line 35)

You can call the different languages through
http://xyz/guestbook/index.php?language=german
or
http://xyz/guestbook/index.php?language=german

My solution is not very nice as it seems that the guestbook does not autoconvert Umlauts to &xyz; neither stores it as unicode. So you will see some distortions if you switch to english encoding.

To the author(s) of Advanced Guestbook:
It would be really great if all languages could be shown properly! Are there any plans to implement this feature?[/b]

I'm trying to use this for English/French but I didn't quite understand the code typed below. Could someone help?