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how to use prdefined array globally ? - El Forum - 03-09-2009
[eluser]runrun[/eluser]
Hi,
I have an personal predefined array, where should I put it in CI, and how to call it ?
how to use prdefined array globally ? - El Forum - 03-09-2009
[eluser]jedd[/eluser]
[quote author="runrun" date="1236607041"]
I have an personal predefined array, where should I put it in CI, and how to call it ?[/quote]
How much data is in it, and how often does your code reference it?
how to use prdefined array globally ? - El Forum - 03-09-2009
[eluser]runrun[/eluser]
Like this
Code:
//translated date (english->vietnamese)
$aTranslated = array(
'vietnamese' => array(
'Thứ hai',
'Thứ ba',
'Thứ tư',
'Thứ năm',
'Thứ sáu',
'Thứ bảy',
'Chủ nhật',
),
'english' => array(
'Monday',
'Tuesday',
'Wednesday',
'Thursday',
'Friday',
'Saturday',
'Sunday',
),
);how to use prdefined array globally ? - El Forum - 03-09-2009
[eluser]jedd[/eluser]
Okay, if that's the extent of your data then you have a few options.
You could conceivably piggyback the config.php file - but I think that'd be ugly.
You could push that amount of data into your session - you've got 4K or so to work with there, remember.
But I really think you'd be better off handling this as a language problem, and use the relevant features of CI.
Have you read:
[url="http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/libraries/language.html"]http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/libraries/language.html[/url]
and
[url="http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/helpers/language_helper.html"]http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/helpers/language_helper.html[/url]
how to use prdefined array globally ? - El Forum - 03-09-2009
[eluser]TheFuzzy0ne[/eluser]
You could also put it in your config.php file. It's very purpose is to load variables and make them available throughout your application.
EDIT: Sorry, I missed the line where Jedd mentioned using the config.php.
how to use prdefined array globally ? - El Forum - 03-09-2009
[eluser]xwero[/eluser]
I agree with jedd this should go in language files. For English there is already the calendar_lang file you can use.
how to use prdefined array globally ? - El Forum - 03-09-2009
[eluser]runrun[/eluser]
Thank you