$GLOBALS

[sholah]

hi,

cud someone please explain what this means:

$x = @$GLOBALS['translate'][$str];

Thanks

[servedchilled]

Basically it's creating a variable "x" to store a global array which is a translation of the "str" that is passed...

What is the rest of the code?

[servedchilled]

Oh and another thing, the translation is normally specified....it looks like this is an example/template rather than an actual piece of working code...

ie $x = translate('111feedme', '1feed', '2eat');

this swaps the second parameter in the first parameter with the third....

basically this would store "112eatme" in the variable "x".... you see?

[sholah]

Hi

its actually part of a function (member).it might be difficult for you to grasp but here it is anyway:

function _( $str, $flags= 0 ) {
if (is_array($str)) {
$translated = array();
foreach ($str as $s)
$translated[] = $this->($s, $flags);
return implode(' ', $translated);
} else {
return $this->($str, $flags);
}
}

function __( $str, $flags = 0) {
	global $dPconfig;
	$str = trim($str);
	if (empty( $str )) {
		return '';
	}
	$x = @$GLOBALS['translate'][$str];

	if ($x) {
		$str = $x;
	} else if (@$dPconfig['locale_warn']) {
		if ($this->base_locale != $this->user_locale ||
			($this->base_locale == $this->user_locale && !in_array( $str, @$GLOBALS['translate'] )) ) {
			$str .= @$dPconfig['locale_alert'];
		}
	}
	switch ($flags & UI_CASE_MASK) {
		case UI_CASE_UPPER:
			$str = strtoupper( $str );
			break;
		case UI_CASE_LOWER:
			$str = strtolower( $str );
			break;
		case UI_CASE_UPPERFIRST:
			$str = ucwords( $str );
			break;
	}
	/* Altered to support multiple styles of output, to fix
	 * bugs where the same output style cannot be used succesfully
	 * for both javascript and HTML output.
	 * PLEASE NOTE: The default is currently UI_OUTPUT_HTML,
	 * which is different to the previous version (which was
	 * effectively UI_OUTPUT_RAW).  If this causes problems,
	 * and they are localised, then use UI_OUTPUT_RAW in the
	 * offending call.  If they are widespread, change the
	 * default to UI_OUTPUT_RAW and use the other options
	 * where appropriate.
	 * AJD - 2004-12-10
	 */
            global $locale_char_set;

	if (! $locale_char_set) {
		$locale_char_set = 'utf-8';
	}

	switch ($flags & UI_OUTPUT_MASK) {
		case UI_OUTPUT_HTML:
			$str = htmlentities(stripslashes($str), ENT_COMPAT, $locale_char_set);
			break;
		case UI_OUTPUT_JS:
			$str = addslashes(stripslashes($str)); //, ENT_COMPAT, $locale_char_set);
			break;
		case UI_OUTPUT_RAW: 
			$str = stripslashes($str);
			break;
	}
	return $str;
}

By the way the $str may either contain Username,Password or forgotPassword

Cheers

[NogDog]

Methinks you are over-complicating this. All it's doing is assigning to variable $x the value that has been assigned to the super-global array $GLOBALS at array index ['translate'][$str] (indicating a 2-dimensional array element in this case). The "@" preceding the array name is being used to suppress the run-time notice that would be generated if that particular array element has not yet been defined/assigned, which is somewhat sloppy coding, as it does not explicitly specify what should be done if that array element is, in fact, not yet defined. Better might be something like:

$x = (isset($GLOBALS['translate'][$str]) ? $GLOBALS['translate'][$str] : 'some default value';

As to what value will actually be assigned to $x, you'll have to find where in the code it populates the values of $GLOBALS['translate'] and know what value $str has.

[sholah]

Thanks alot...Uve been of immense help.Thanks