T_FUNCTION parse error

thewedge

I found this script on the php.net website. It is something I need for my site. I am new to php, and tried to correct my parse error but to no avail. Does anybody know what might be wrong with this script. The only other piece of script on this page is a database call that works if this script is taken off the page.
<?php
function summarize($paragraph, $limit){
$tok = strtok($paragraph, " ");
while($tok){
$text .= " $tok";
$words++;
if(($words >= $limit) && ((substr($tok, -1) == "!")||(substr($tok, -1) == ".")))
break;
$tok = strtok(" ");
}
return ltrim($text);
}
?>
I suspect it is missing a bracket some where, or the person who placed the script on the web didn't include the rest of the script to make it work.
I am looking for a script that will take news items and condense them into a snippet of text for sidebar areas.

vallette

The function code is fine, I think the problem is in how you're calling it. What's the text of the entire error? Is it something like this:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_FUNCTION, expecting ',' or ';' in /home/blah/htdocs/blah.php on line 5

If so, check to see that you have a ';' at the end of the line with the function call. If that's not the problem I'd like to see more of your code.

thewedge

Thank you for replying to my problem so quickly.

My server company sent this as the whole error

The error that is showing in the logs is:
PHP Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_FUNCTION in
/home/sites/site176/web/athletes/newsathlete.php on line 27

Line 27 was where the function started

Since I am new to this function thing. How would I make this function work. I think I need to equal the two variables
$paragraph
$limit
to something like

$paragraph = $row_rsNews['Newsbody']; (being the field from the database.)
$limit = 20;

then I am going to echo either $text; or summarize();

I have read in my wonderful php book that I can take out return and insert echo. Is this true and would this work?

Here is the database pull from the top of the page.

?php require_once('../Connections/criticalspee.php'); ?>
<?php
mysql_select_db($database_criticalspee, $criticalspee);
$query_rsNews = "SELECT * FROM News ORDER BY NewsDate DESC";
$rsNews = mysql_query($query_rsNews, $criticalspee) or die(mysql_error());
$row_rsNews = mysql_fetch_assoc($rsNews);
$totalRows_rsNews = mysql_num_rows($rsNews);
?>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>

thewedge

I went back to my book and reread calling functions. What you said about calling jogged something. It works now. Thanks