Calling Function in PHP

Anon

This is probably a very easy question, but I was wondering how to call a function in a php file. I have a function that would print out a url.

<?
<a href=\"url()\"></a>

?

Then I have another line that calls function name(), like this:
<?
Bid name() items on Ebay
?>

Both of the codes only output the url() and name() as though it were a string. How can I tell it to recgonize as a function? I hope this makes sense. =/

mwilson

Assuming you had the url() and name() function defined already your code should read (for a: assuming that url() echos text rather than returning it);

<?php

echo "<a href=\"";
url();
echo "</a>";

And for section b: (again assuming that name() prints data rather than returning it);

<?php

echo "Bid ";
name();
echo " items on EBay";

HTH

Matt

Anon

Hi j,
if i understand you problem the answer is very easy:

<a href="http://foo.php?f=url">Call function</a>

in your script you do the following:

<?
//call my function given over url
$$f();

function url()
{
echo "Hello fuction caller";
}
?>

Greetings
juggler