function troubles

[jwb666]

i am very stuck, this won't work, please help!

function test($data)
{
nl2br($data);
//there are a lot of other stuff here, this is just an example
}

test( $stuff );

echo("$stuff");

this is basically to clear up textarea stuff. it has loads more stuff, but do i need to 'return $data;' at the end of te function?

also, why won't this work?

$base_file = basename($base_file);
$filename = "data/".$base_file; //or "data/$base_file"; - neither works

I thought it would work, but then again i think a lot of things lol.

Sorry for a rushed post, I had like a minute to typ this lol. cheers, jwb666.

[LordShryku]

Well, the function needs to do something. Return it, echo it, something. Right now, it has no output and no return value.

The second part should work, provided $base_file has a value. What's it's doing and what have you done to debug it?

[jwb666]

um i was trying to use the base_file() to get the filenam of the file so i could open a .inc of the same name there was also a str_replace('.php', '.inc', $base_file); thing, but thats fine