Question

In the main view i have this function

public function lang($file, $language){
require 'languages/'.$language.'/'. $file . '.php'; 
}

Then in the view file home.php i have

$this->lang('global','en'); 

The lag file global.php

$lang = array (
  'title' => 'mySite',
);

Now in the home.php if I use print_r($lang); nothing happens. I copy and paste the same script below the array in global.php and in home.php I see the array. So the file is loaded but why can’t I use it home.php ?

Answer 1

public function lang( $file, $language)
{
    require_once("languages/{$language}/{$file}.php");

    return $lang;
}

$lang = $this->lang('global','en');
print_r($lang);

I’d suggest caching the results, though, and accessing that way.

var $cache = array();

public function lang( $file, $language)
{
    if( !isset( $this->cache[$language][$file] ) )
    {
        require_once("languages/{$language}/{$file}.php");
        $this->cache[$language][$file] = $lang;
    }

    return $this->cache[$language][$file];
}

$lang = $this->lang('global','en');
print_r($lang);