problem with DEFINE using MYSQL data

[jstarkweather]

I am using a set of files with DEFINES's for different languages and translation phrases.

For items that are database driven I would like to be able to pull the $title of a catagory for example and then using that result (_CATAGORYNAME) have it pull the appropriate DEFINE result based on the users language selection.

Normally my DEFINE works like this:

DEFINE ("_CATAGORYNAME","Widgets");

echo "The catagory name is"._CATAGORYNAME."";

But what I want to be able to do is pull the _CATAGORYNAME dynamically from the database. The trick seems to be to have the define function do it's work first. All my attempts thus far lead to just seeing:

_CATAGORYNAME

🙁

Thanks for any help,

Jim