Check a varible for a value

[gr8graphix]

My skills are basic at best, but I can normally edit existing codes to suite my needs and someday hope to be good at it (any good coaches out there?)...

Any way, I am working on this piece of code that pulls in all the echos from a language include. Works fine but it generates dozens of "undefined variable" warnings each time it goes to the language file for another piece of text.

For instance, the language file contains:

$l_admin18 = "The webpage <b>$file</b> has been successfully edited!!!";
 

My admin.php includes the language file and several lines down calls $l_admin18 but the $file variable is undefined within the language file but IS defined in the admin.php so it works fine, but I get the undefined notice.

Am I making sense?

My thoughts are to write a snippet that checks for a value, if none exist, a value is assigned. Is this the best way to go or is some "null" function better? or maybe just add the "@" to ALL the lines involved?

thanks in advanced and you'll probably see me on this forum ALOT... :)

[bergy]

It sounds like maybe PHP is configured to display warnings when most web servers don't do warnings, only errors. An option maybe to add [PHP]global $file;[/PHP] at the top of the language file (and possibly in your admin.php file) so it uses the $file defined in admin.php. I'm not sure I fully understand exactly what's happening with the script you're talking about... maybe some more code directly from your file would make it clear.

[gr8graphix]

Well, I did add:

error_reporting (E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE);
 

To the beginning of the main "index.php" file which suppressed all the notices and the script works fine, but I read somewhere that you really should clean the code up so those messages don't show up - that is what I am trying to do.

the language file is just a list of variable declarations

$I_head1 = "text of some sort"
$I_head2 = "some text"
$I_head3 = "more text"
$I_head4 = "and even more"
etc...
 

it is all the messages that get printed on screen and there are different version based on different languages.

the problem comes from when there is a variable called in the language code that has not been defined

$I_head2 = "the file named $file is big"

the $file variable is declared somewhere else, so when the language file is included, I get the "undefined" warning for each occurrence of the $file variable in the language php file.

Is there some code like "check variable if empty, ignore"?

if ( ! empty($file) (???)

[pbmods]

Heya, gr8graphix.

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