the best way to codeigniter website multi-language CMS implement

This is not an easy task. CI provides multi language support (like many CMS) but that is only halfway of what you need. Depending on your site there is far more content that needs to change then the few menu, header and footer messages. I have several Real Estate website where the client can add new categories but also new attributes depending of the area he is selling. For all those I have created my own language table and the client will have to add the translation for everything they add.

All strings in my code will always be pulled from the language table. In the code I just use a token and depending on the section of the user the function will return the text in the correct language.

I hope this helps a bit.

On the package it said needs Windows 7 or better. So I installed Linux.