including files in classes

[olaf]

Hallo,

I want to include different files with variables (translation files) in to a class file.

Is this possible and how ?

Somthing like if some property == some value include a file i told the class before. I noticed that it is possible to do it with define, but is there something more?

Thanks for helping.
If you like you can download my classes from my website.

[Shrike]

I presume each translation file is of the form

varname = value
varname2 = value2

So for example if the desired language is set as a GET parameter, you could just have an array variable in the class:

class MyClass
{
  var $trans = array();
  function myClass()
  {
    if(file_exists($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] ."/". $_GET['lang'] .".txt"))
    {
      $file = file($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] ."/". $_GET['lang'] .".txt");
    }
    else
    {
      $file = file($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] ."/en.txt");
    }
    foreach($file as $value)
    {
      $value = explode(" = ", $value);
      $this->trans[$value[0]] = $value[1];
    }
  }

  function getTranslation($key)
  {
    if(isset($this->trans[$key]))
    {
      return $this->trans[$key];
    }
  }
}

[olaf]

Hallo Shrike,

thanks for helping, I found some similar solutions in other classes. I don't like this so much... of course it is way to hold the translation text outside a class (for examle for translations through other people) but... 😕

I used another solution like this:

(please check the download)
http://www.finalwebsites.com/snippets.php?id=10