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Imoddedu

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Hey there! I'm trying to learn how to localize my website with PHP and I'm running into..an annoing error. >.< :) The PHP error is:Notice: Undefined index: lang in C:\Program Files (x86)\EasyPHP-5.3.3.1\www\SearchWiDe\lang.php on line 8here is the code:header.php

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><!-- Meta Information --><?php include ("lang.php"); ?><title>----</title><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /><meta name="Robots" content="index,follow" /><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=UTF-8" /> <meta name="Keywords" content="----" /><meta name="Description" content="----" /><!-- CSS/JavaScript --><link rel="Shortcut Icon" href="img/logo16.png" /><style type="text/css">@import url("style.css");</style> <script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.js"></script></head><body><div id="page"><div id="topnav"><a href="index.php" class="linktop">Search</a><span class="pipetop">|</span><a href="about.php" class="linktop">About</a><span class="pipetop">|</span><a href="faq.php" class="linktop">FAQ</a><span class="pipetop">|</span><a href="privacy.php" class="linktop">Privacy</a><span class="pipetop">|</span><a href="terms.php" class="linktop">Terms</a><span class="pipetop">|</span><a href="help.php" class="linktop">Help</a><span class="pipetop">|</span><a href="news.php" class="linktop">News</a><span class="pipetop">|</span><a href="blog.php" class="linktop">Blog</a><span class="pipetop">|</span><a href="contact.php" class="linktop">Contact</a><span class="pipetop">|</span><span class="pipetop">Follow us:</span><a href=""><img src="img/social/blogger.png" alt="Blogger" height="11" width="11" /></a><a href=""><img src="img/social/facebook.png" alt="Facebook" height="11" width="11" /></a><a href=""><img src="img/social/twitter.png" alt="Twitter" height="11" width="11" /></a><br /><span class="pipetop">Choose Region:</span><a class="langSelect" href="">US<img class="langFlag" src="img/flags/us.png" alt="United States" /></a><span class="pipetop">|</span><a class="langSelect" href="">CA<img class="langFlag" src="img/flags/ca.png" alt="Canada" /></a><span class="pipetop">|</span><a class="langSelect" href="">UK<img class="langFlag" src="img/flags/gb.png" alt="United Kingdom" /></a><span class="pipetop">|</span><a class="langSelect" href="">IE<img class="langFlag" src="img/flags/ie.png" alt="Ireland" /></a><span class="pipetop">|</span><a class="langSelect" href="">AU<img class="langFlag" src="img/flags/au.png" alt="Australia" /></a><span class="pipetop">|</span><a class="langSelect" href="">NZ<img class="langFlag" src="img/flags/nz.png" alt="New Zealand" /></a><!-- Start of Language Chooser --><br /><span class="pipetop">Choose Language:</span><a class="langSelect" href="?lang=en">English</a><span class="pipetop">|</span><a class="langSelect" href="?lang=fr">French</a><span class="pipetop">|</span><a class="langSelect" href="?lang=es">Spanish</a><span class="pipetop">|</span><?php if ($currLang == "en") { echo "<span class='pipetop'><i>You are viewing ---- in English</i></span>";}elseif ($currLang == "fr") {echo "<span class='pipetop'><i>Vous voyez --- en français</i></span>";} elseif ($currLang == "es") {echo "<span class='pipetop'><i>Usted está viendo la --- en español</i></span>";} else { echo "<span class='pipetop'><i>---</i></span>";} ?></div><br /><div id="logo"><img id="imglogo" src="img/64logo.png" alt="-----" /></div>

and lang.php

<?php session_start(); // Start PHP Sessionif ($_SESSION['lang'] == "") { 	$_SESSION['lang'] = "en"; 	$currLang = "en"; 	}	else {	$currLang = $_GET['lang'];	$_SESSION['lang'] = $currLang;} 	switch($currLang) { 	case "en": 	define("CHARSET","ISO-8859-1"); 	define("LANGCODE", "en"); 	break; 	case "fr": 	define("CHARSET","ISO-8859-1"); 	define("LANGCODE", "fr"); 	break; 	case "es": 	define("CHARSET","ISO-8859-1"); 	define("LANGCODE", "es"); 	break; 	default: 	define("CHARSET","ISO-8859-1"); 	define("LANGCODE", "en"); 	break; 	} 	header('Content-type: text/html;charset=”.CHARSET');	header('Content-Language: ”.LANGCODE');?>

According to the error, it has something to do with the $_GET I think.

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The error you're getting is telling you $_GET['lang'] has not been set. It contains no value. Does it show in the URL?
No, it doesn't. I just go straight to the index.phpI don't go to like, index.php?lang=fr for example. I thought the script automatically puts it to "en"?
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Typing a link like this does not work:

<a class="langSelect" href="?lang=en">English</a>

You have to type in the filename also - like so:

<a class="langSelect" href="index.php?lang=en">English</a>

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That link should work, it's still a relative link. I don't know if it strictly follows the spec, but browsers won't choke on it. Try this:

if (isset($_GET['lang'])) {  $_SESSION['lang'] = $currLang = $_GET['lang'];}elseif (isset($_SESSION['lang'])) {  $currLang = $_SESSION['lang'];}else{  $_SESSION['lang'] = $currLang = 'en';}

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That link should work, it's still a relative link. I don't know if it strictly follows the spec, but browsers won't choke on it.
Did you test it? It doesn't work for me in IE, FF, Chrome, Opera or Safari.
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I haven't tested it, I believe I've seen it before though.
Ah, ok it works now. Looking back at your code I was actually thinking of doing something similar like that to fix the problem!
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