How do you construct phrases in PHP?

[Jaxel]

I have the following code:

	if ($limit && ($count > $limit))
	{
		return construct_phrase($vbphrase['media_tags_count'],  construct_href_details($media), $count);
	}

Basically, if the limit is defined, the number of tags exceeds the limit, it should construct a phrase:

<a href="{1}">Too many ({2}), view details for the full list...</a>

Whenever this happens however, instead of getting the construct phrase, I get a null string. Am I doing something wrong?

--------------- Added [DATE]1271451643[/DATE] at [TIME]1271451643[/TIME] ---------------

figured it out... forgot to put

global $vbphrase;