HI all, i hope that you wil lassist me with this problem.

The general idea is to have all language variables in one file per language and to display them where it is needed.
Now, i have the following:

In page index.php

PHP Code:

// database connection, setting the $lang etc...

    include ("inc/dictionary_$lang.php");
    include_once ("inc/function.php");

// fetch info from db
    $strana = "SELECT id AS page_id, strana_$lang AS naslov, template_id FROM strane WHERE id='$page_id'";
    $result = mysql_query($strana);    
    $myrow = mysql_fetch_array($result);
    $page_id=$myrow["page_id"];
    $naslov=$myrow["naslov"];
    $template=$myrow["template_id"];

// Insert head and top of the page
        include ("inc/top.html");

// Insert main part of page
        include ("templates/template$template.htm");

// something 


in dictionary_$lang.php
i have the following

PHP Code:

$f_name = "Name";
$f_lastname = "Last name";
// and so on... 


html template looks like this:

...
                <tr>
                 <td width="210"><? echo $f_lastname?> * </td>
                 <td width="290"><input name="lastname" type="text" id="lastname" /></td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                 <td><? echo $f_name?>* </td>
                 <td><input name="name" type="text" id="name" /></td>
                </tr>
...

this is from function.php

PHP Code:

function print_fields ()
{
    switch ($form) 
        {
            case 1:
            // array to describe fields
            $mail_1 = array($f_lastname, $f_name, 'adress', 'plz');
            // array to print values
            $mail_2 = array($_POST['lastname'], $_POST['name'], $_POST['adress'], $_POST['plz'];
            break; 

if ($mail_2)
    {
    // print description and values
    echo '<table border=1 width=500>';
    for($i=0; $i<=count($mail_1)-1; $i++)
        {
        echo '<tr>';
        echo ' <td width=150>'.$mail_1[$i].': </td>';
        echo ' <td>'.$mail_2[$i].'</td>';
        echo '<tr>';
        }
    echo '</table>';
    }
    else
    {
        echo " error";
    }
} 


This doesn't work, since function doesn't recognize variables from dictionary file.
If i change fucntion to this

PHP Code:

function print_fields  ()
{
    GLOBAL $lang;
    include ("inc/dictionary_$lang.php");
// etc 


it works, but i don't see it as nice solution... any suggestions?

I would say that it's not so much that your variables aren't recognised but that you would have to state (for each and every variable) that they are global variables (as you did with $lang) before accessing them.

If it were me, instead of setting each language string as a separate variable, I would make them items in an array. Then, in the print_fields function I would just have to have 'global $language_array;' and I could then accessing all of the language strings.

Hopefully that makes sense.

i agree withtwist arm

Thanks for your comment.
Can you tell me how would i be able to change values printed on the screen which are described in print_fields () function ?
As i see it, i am back on the same problem - how can variables from the array print different results according to selected language?