Posted by Joe Scylla on 05/25/07 06:51

rbutlerjr@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi, I've racked my brain for the last few hours trying to figure
> this one out. I have an array of language strings such as :
>
> $lang = array();
> $lang['en']['prompt']['hello'] = 'hello';
> $lang['en']['prompt']['bye'] = 'goodbye';
> $lang['en']['number']['first'] = '1st';
>
> This is being used by an ajax routine, so I don't know which string
> will be requested at runtime. So, I've got $lang and a request
> ('en_prompt_hello'), and tried a few things such as:
>
> $request = explode ($request);
> $found_string = array_intersect_assoc ($lang, $request);
>
> to no avail. Short of having to do a complicated recursion searching
> at every available depth, is there an easy way to do this?
>
> Thanks...
>

Personally i would create unique keys for every of you language strings
like but you can also access values in deep nested arrays:

$request = "en_prompt_bye";
$lang = array("en" => array("prompt" => array("bye" => "Bye User!")));

$arr = explode("_", $request); //explode request to array
echo $lang[$arr[0]][$arr[1]][$arr[2]]; // get the value

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