Question

I hit a strange problem with PHP and its require_once language construct.

I require file called EN-en.php. It contains the English language for my website, I wrote it like this:

....
$lang['header']['loginbox']['menu'][1] = "contacts" ;
$lang['header']['loginbox']['menu'][2] = "settings" ;
....

Then I user this code to include my file in the whole site

require_once $langFile ;

Very easy I think, $langFile is = "/var/www/webstite/langs/EN-en.php". But here’s come the strange part.

When I use

echo $lang['header']['loginbox']['menu'][1]; 

It prints something like “Gontacts” … I can’t understand why, and it’s not the only case.. Please someone can help me with this issue?.

Answer 1

You are probably overwriting your own values in the array.

See this simple example:

$test = "some text";
$test['menu'] = 'extra';
var_dump($test);
// produces: string(9) "eome text"
// the first character - $test[0] - gets overwritten