Hej Kim, > Hi there > > have you ever double entered the same words? > Well, if You do that, the later is the overwriting the previous ;) Exactly what I want to avoid. That was a pretty good example of using language files...and I really liked the text in that file...funny ;-) I understand the thing about why _not_ to use a database or sessions (i thought of that before, too many calls or resource intensive) but isnt your method of searching a text document all the time a bit more of a problem than Mikes method of having a seperate language file like lang.en.inc.php where you would have arrays like so: $lang_en['party_starting_tomorrow'] = "The party starts tomorrow!"; $lang_en['old_party_was_success'] = "The old party was a fantastic success!"; Cheers, Ryan -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.4 - Release Date: 4/6/2005 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php