[Resolved] Call to undefined function: getsection()

lchelf

Hello,

I've been working on a dynamic site for my business and for some reason my page isn't actually loading a required file. The reason I say that is because when I load the page that has the require statement it is requiring my functions.php page that has all of the functions that are used within the site. Even though it doesn't return a fatal error on the require step. It does return a fatal error when trying to call one of the functions. The strangest part is that it was working and when I reloaded the page it quit. I can remove the require statement and move all of the functions to the top of the page but that is just silly. Below is some of the code and where I'm having issues:

Here is where I call the functions.php page
<?php
require("config.php");
require("functions.php");
?>
<html>
<head>

And Here is where the function call fails:
<td class="td_main_sides" align="center" valign="top">
<?php
GetSection("L");
?>
</td>

Note: GetSection is in funcitons.php

Please help.

stolzyboy

can you show us the function GetSection from the functions.php page

lchelf

stolzyboy

hmmm, not sure, maybe unquote the L in the parameter

lchelf

Here is the deal. One minute it was working. I added another function called GetMenuBar() and that's when it starts to act funny. So I removed that function and it's acting like it is requiring the file but not actually loading the data from functions.php into the site to be accessible. Any ideas?

stolzyboy

getmenubar doesn't have any opendb() or closedb() function calls does it, that may conflict, other than that, not sure

lchelf

OpenDB() and CloseDB() are custom functions i made to simplify opening and closing db connections. those are also in the functions page attached is the functions.php.

stolzyboy

you have this in your menubar function

ClosDB();

should be

CloseDB();

and you have those functions both in getsection and getmenubar, do you think those open and closes could be conflicting, like it opens in getsection and then getmenubar closes it, but you still need it open in getsection, you see what i mean, the overlapping, not sure if it is, but it could be

lchelf

Unfortunately that wasn't it. I didn't notice the missing e in CloseDB so i added it and checked but that really doesn't matter.... I hadn't called GetMenuBar() so it wouldn't have made a call to the undefined function of ClosDB() (note the missing e). It is still acting like it hasn't loaded funcitons.php into the site even though it is required. I just get the error

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: getsection() in /home/lko/public_html/index.php on line 33

So it is just not calling the function that is included in functions.php which is required at the top of the page to ensure it is loaded.

stolzyboy

Originally posted by lchelf
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: getsection() in /home/lko/public_html/index.php on line 33

is that the exact error?

shouldn't it be GetSection(), not getsection(), i notice it was GetSection in the original post, but you never know

lchelf

Tried that. I think that when php outputs an error it puts everything in lower case. Also since I can copy the same functions to the top of the page and not require("functions.php") it works just fine.

stolzyboy

have you tried include to see if it will generate any different errors

tsinka

Hi,

there is an error:

while($row=mysql_fetch_array($r){

A ) is missing:

while($row=mysql_fetch_array($r)){

lchelf

I have tried include and no changes.

thanx for spotting my syntax error 🙂

lchelf

Originally posted by tsinka
Hi,

there is an error:

while($row=mysql_fetch_array($r){

A ) is missing:

while($row=mysql_fetch_array($r)){

That fixed it. Thanx so much. Don't I feel stupid. Thanx a lot eveyone. It was a brain scratcher for me.