global vars

Howdy!

My host just upgraded to PHP 4.2.3 and my life is now a bitch. 🙂 I can't figure out this:

I have a language file (english.php) where I store my language vars

$lang = array();
global $lang;

$lang[rufus] = "Rufus";
$lang[dufus] = "Dufus";
$lang[hilario] = "Hilario";

In my scripts I use include (english.php) and global $lang; to get access to these variables, but after the upgrade things does not work.

echo "Howdy $lang[rufus]";

returns: Howdy

I expect it has something to do with register_globals being turned off, but don't know how to make things work again.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

John

maybe:

$lang[rufus] -> $lang['rufus']

echo "Howdy $lang[rufus]"; -> echo "Howdy". $lang['rufus'];