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Topic: how does strTxt work?

Posted By: Angela French
Subject: how does strTxt work?
Date Posted: 05 August 2003 at 3:04pm

How does strTxt work to create strings that written to the page?

How does strTxtWhatIsThis turn into What Is This ?

I looked for a function to do this but could not find it.

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Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 05 August 2003 at 3:31pm

They are constants set in the Language Files.

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Posted By: Angela French
Date Posted: 05 August 2003 at 3:50pm

Thank you for helping me understand this. Looking into the code is very interesting as I've only had about a year of aSP experience and it was all learned on my own. So it is interesting to see these different coding practices.

Question though - how are these pages brought into the pages that use them? I would have thought through include files, but I'm looking at one that didn't seem to do that.

For instance: in default.asp there is the strTxtTheTimeNowIs that is used to write the time label to the top of the page. This constant is set in language_file_inc.asp, and yet I don't see that file called into default.asp page. How does default.asp page get hold of those variables to use?

Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 05 August 2003 at 5:12pm

The default.asp includes the common.asp and the common.asp includes the language_file_inc.asp
If this practice is really necessary or not is up to discussion but this way you have to include one "important" file which includes all other files that might be needed. Either way is ok to do I guess.

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Posted By: Angela French
Date Posted: 05 August 2003 at 5:45pm

Thanks.

Why so much use of variables as opposed to just writing out the actual text in the response.write. ?

Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 05 August 2003 at 7:58pm

It makes it much easier to translate the forum into different languages or change the wording on certain things.

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Posted By: Angela French
Date Posted: 06 August 2003 at 10:21am

I hadn't thought of language translations.

Thanks.