I am planning to build a multilingual CMS & I have the following:

CREATE TABLE `posts` (
    `post_id` INT(11) UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
    `post_cat` INT(11) UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
    `post_date` DATETIME NOT NULL,
    `post_title` VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
    `post_body` TEXT NOT NULL,
    `post_lang` TINYINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL
);

CREATE TABLE `languages` (
    `lang_id` TINYINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
    `lang_name` VARCHAR(60) NOT NULL
);

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Obviously enough I'll need a 3rd table to connect same posts of different languages together ... but I am out of ideas as I don't see how easy to implement it or use it in Perl i.e: when you are in a page in English you'll have the option to press on "French" button .. and you'll have the same post in French.

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