$_get problem

[alexzzz]

Hi!

. I m making a site which will retrieve tet from a mysql database. The text will be retrieved in different languages depending on what language button the user clicks on. How do I do this?

Being a newbie php, this is what i figured i should do

using a link on each language button which passes a variable via GET method. Like this

<A HREF=\"$PHP_SELF?lang=eng\">English</a>

it then reloads the page and i then set the languge variable to the selected language like this...??

$language = isset($_GET['lang']);

then uses $language to retrieve the apropriate id's in the database...

I dont seem to get this to work... I m probably doing this the wrong way and would be really glad if i could get some help on this... proably there is a totally different way to it thats better..

thanks

[laserlight]

Use isset() to check the variable, not to actually assign with it.

e.g.

if (isset($_GET['lang']))
	$language = $_GET['lang'];
else
	$language = '';

though you may wish to perform further validation.

[ritu]

isset($GET['lang']) -- the function isset only tells whether the variable $GET['lang'] is set or not.
It returns a true if it the variable is set else it returns a false. To receive the value of language, u can use --
if(isset($GET['lang']))
{
$language=$GET['lang'];
}
else
{
//the $_GET['lang'] is not set
}