Question

Im trying to make a function, that takes an input, determines its value, and outputs a word from an already existing array that has been included in the script. The problem is the output is blank, i believe the function ignores variables already in the script, is there a way to change this so existing variables arent ignored by the function?

Here is the function:

The words need to be from an array because of multi-lingual requirements.

function get_genre($id)
{
    if($id == "1"){
        $genre = $lang['277'];
    }
    if($id == "2"){
        $genre = $lang['278'];
    }
    if($id == "3"){
        $genre = $lang['279'];
    }
    if($id == "4"){
        $genre = $lang['280'];
    }
    if($id == "5"){
        $genre = $lang['281'];
    }
    if($id == "6"){
        $genre = $lang['282'];
    }
    if($id == "7"){
        $genre = $lang['283'];
    }
    if($id == "8"){
        $genre = $lang['284'];
    }
    if($id == "9"){
        $genre = $lang['285'];
    }
    if($id == "10"){
        $genre = $lang['286'];
    }
    if($id == "11"){
        $genre = $lang['287'];
    }
    if($id == "12"){
        $genre = $lang['288'];
    }
    if($id == "13"){
        $genre = $lang['289'];
    }
    if($id == "14"){
        $genre = $lang['290'];
    } 
    if($id == "15"){
        $genre = $lang['374'];
    }
    return $genre;
}    

Answer 1

function get_genre($id)
{
    global $lang;
    ....
}

or

function get_genre($id, $lang) //Must pass $lang array to function here
{

}