[RESOLVED] Outputting text with appended constant with echo?

[tankjer]

Hello, it's my first post on these forums. 🙂
I have a problem with this code:

<?PHP 
    $lang = $_GET['lang'];
    define('text_en', 'WORKS');
    define('text_pl', 'DZIALA');
    echo ("text_$lang");
?>

I want to that php file recognize the language provided in the url (ex. index.php?lang=en) and then echo the text corresponding to that language (ex. text_en). The problem is, that the php outputs "text_en" or "text_pl", when it should output constant corresponding to it (ex. WORKS). I'm fairly new in PHP, and I'm learning only by googling, but I couldn't find solution to this so I write there.
Cheers for any help,
Tankjer.

[david8787]

If you opt to change your constants to variables you could get it working with variable variables.

<?PHP 
    $lang = $_GET['lang'];
    $text_en = 'WORKS';
    $text_pl = 'DZIALA';
    $word = "text_$lang";
    echo $$word;
?>

[bradgrafelman]

No sense in changing to variables unless the data is actually variable (which it probably isn't). Thus, use [man]constant/man:

echo constant("text_$lang");

[tankjer]

Thank you! I used the 'echo constant()' in the end.