Define or Arrays

[Walle]

Is define slower than arrays (and vice versa) for multilanguage sites?

[bpat1434]

I personally would think array's would be the better bet. Only because you could load portions of the array, and allow for "overrides" of a default language, whereas with define you can't.

[Weedpacket]

Speed isn't an issue yet.

Another advantage of arrays over defines is that you can use more than one language at once.

[bpat1434]

One could even move into the world of "objects" with translations... maybe a little overkill, but another option instead of straight arrays and defines.

[Walle]

OK, thanks people. Seems to me that arrays is better and should change to it instead of using define. Just started with define but guess it’s no problem to change to array instead.

Dont know if that is posible with define either but is it possible to i use PHP function in array? for example echo date(); ?

[bpat1434]

You can store the result of a function call to an array ... yes.

You could even store the name of the function you want to run, and call it from the array. E.g.:

<?php

$array = array
(
    'somethingToRun' => 'date'
);

echo $array['somethingToRun']('m/d/Y');

THat would run the [man]date[/man] function.