What did i do wrong?

I am trying to get php to grab data from a language file and place it on a page. Here is my code:

<?php include_once("inc/language.php"); ?>

PHP:

Hello, my name is <?php echo $lang['name']?>

PHP:

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

On the second line:

Hello, my name is <?php echo $lang['name']; ?>

Code (markup):

Notice that you forget to write the ; before ?>

 

Could we take a look at your language.php file?

Regards

 

although it's good practice, this doesnt matter at the moment, i think the suspect here is the language file

 

You need to take care of the structure of folders/files , here is how it can be done

public_html/    //main site folder
public_html/index.php  //a main file
public_html/inc/language.php  //the language file

Code (markup):

language.php

<?php
$lang = array();
$lang['name']="Name";
$lang['key']="Value";
.....

PHP:

index.php

<?php 
include_once("inc/language.php"); 
//test to see if array is present see how many pairs you have
echo count($lang);

?>
Hello, my name is <?php echo $lang['name']; ?>

PHP:

 

Thanks everyone. The problem was in my lang file.