"including files" a better way to?

[olaf]

I build a multilingual site which is translated with included files. All looks good so far.

Now i'm busy with a script to give users from other countries an easy way to translate the text.

First i started with this:
$var1 = "text bla";
$var2 = "...

What's better for PHP edit the text-file like the example before or create one which looks like this:

$var1;text bla
$var2;more text
...
this example is eaiser to handle with string and file functions.
But i have to read the whole inc.-file each time into an array

[jayant]

I will prefer to have the file as PHP code

<?php
$var = "blah blah ...";
?>

or store the data in XML format rather than using the format you suggested.

[olaf]

That right the php-code is the best...

Is the XML-code easier to handle (for the translation tool)?