Dynamic Includes

What I need is to make a language changer for a project I'm working on, all language files have the following directory structure:

+languages
| en
|- files
| pt
|- files
and so on...

ASP pages will then call the correct file according to the value on the cookie (en/pt...), but I'm using SSI to include the language file and it does not allow dynamic values.

Now, for what I could gather SSI does not allow dynamic includes, you know the (<!-- #include file="page<%= rnd %>.asp" -->) this would be great, but because SSI's are included before the ASP parser, the <%= value %> would not be known, and it doen't work.

Then I tried the Server.Execute, also failed because it loads the file, processes it and unloads it, so it will no longer be available to pass language constants along.

I've been banging my head on the wall with this one, still no solution, has anyone done something similar, or know how can I do this? Remember I would like to use the directory stucture as above.

Thanks.

Hi, I was actually exploring that possibility, since I have done exactly that for the skin changer, however, the language files are several files, each page requests the lang file it needs, (ie. gallery script requests only the gallery lang file, not a big global lang file) how do I go about doing that?

Each file has an Include on top that includes the language file it needs, and my other setup is like this: I have a language changer form that submits it's selection to a language processor page, this page then sets the cookie, and after that I'm kinda stuck.

I guess I could do a (Select Case) like this on the requesting page:

<% Select Case Request.Cookies("Kahombo")("Language") Case "en" %> <!--#include file="path/en.asp"--%> <% Case "pt" %> <!--#include file="path/pt.asp"--%> <% End Select %>

The problem with this approach is that all files are included regardless, but only one is processed, also as the languages list gets bigger, it will get slower as all files must be included.

There must be another way.

What I'm trying to do is say for example you want to add multi-language capabilities to this forums, you'll have a drop-down list with the languages, users will then select a lang, and submit the form.

How would you do it after that?

dpyers: Did you mean using Server.Transfer with the PreserveForm option? How so? How do you plan to dynamically include the correct lang file? Thx.

All forum files contain variables that are the same in all language files, the difference is the value of those variables.

I've been looking around for this, and it seams to be a real pain in the back side to do in ASP, I've read a large discussion last night about it, it took me till 5am and the final word was that there's no easy way without some kind of compromise.

I may also look into do it in ASP.NET and combite it with ASP somehow, Mart, michael or any other .NET wiz, please comment.

Lots of people out there have this issue, I plan to crack it, with your help off-course ;) I will not do anything else until this is resolved as it is really important for my project, this morning I was even dreaming about language files :) damn this is getting bad. Thx.

COM? I rather not use COM as the project will later be hosted on many different hosts and some will not have this ability, so I would like to stay away from COM.

Anyway, if you can tell me the process involved.

Is there any other way to do this in ASP? Also, with no COM how to in ASP.NET?

Thx.