String and defined value

[mikawhat]

I have a string $weather = 'SUNNY'; returned by an xml, and i have also define('SUNNY','translation...');
echo $weather will display SUNNY. How can i make it to display the defined value for SUNNY?

[bradgrafelman]

Use [man]constant/man.

But a better question is why didn't you just use an array?

e.g.:

$lang['spanish']['CLOUDY'] = 'nublado';
$lang['german']['CLOUDY'] = 'bewölkt';
// etc.

$xml = 'CLOUDY';
$userlang = 'spanish';

echo "Hoy está " . $lang[$userlang][$xml];

[mikawhat]

I've already tried with constant but it didn't return anything...

Is it better using arrays for multiple lanuages rather than differentt files with define()?

[Weedpacket]

mikawhat wrote:

I've already tried with constant but it didn't return anything...

It ought to; how did you try it?

mikawhat wrote:

Is it better using arrays for multiple lanuages rather than differentt files with define()?

As one example where arrays can be more convenient is this example from personal experience: I needed to use two languages at the same time (as part of a messaging system: the page needed to be in the user's language, but the alert email needed to be in the recipient's language). Another is that it allows a "default" language to be supplied in case some translations are incomplete (see this thread).