include a function doesnt work

[agalligani]

OK - simple.

I have this big spaghetti code (my first real PHP project) file and I want to move my functions out of the big ass 12k php file.

Well . . .

I moved a function called "listprojects" to listprojects.php

<?php
   function listprojects($conn)  {
     . . . .function stuff
                }
 ?>

. . . and in the main program I put the include statement . . . .

include "listprojects.php";

. . .. but when I run the program in the browser nothing happens. The files are in the same directory by the way . . .

Whassup???

[halojoy]

<?php
// function called "listprojects" in "listprojects.php"

function listprojects( $conn=0 )  {
//         . . . .function stuff
$my_list ="";

if ( $conn ) {   // if conn isset and not == 0
$my_list = "this is a list of my many projects";
}
else {
$my_list = "zero";
}

return $my_list;
} // end function
?>

<?php

//  . . . and in the "main.php" I put include statements . . . 

// first set some commonly used website variables from my configuration
include "config.php";
$conn = 1;
// for example: $conn gets its value set in 'config.php' set-tings

// get definitions of one or a whole bunch of common site functions
// just define them, not run!
include "listprojects.php";

// run the defined function listprojects()
// using currently set value of variable  $conn

$proj_list = listprojects( $conn );

echo "this is my list of projects:
            <br><br>
        $proj_list
            <br><br>
        <a href='index.php'>Back home</a>";

exit;  // stop script - wait for click 'Back home'

?>

halojoy fantasy created this script
from an original idea by
agalligani Copyright 2005

🙂

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[agalligani]

I did realize that all i had to do was call the function after I had included it. Seems obvious now!

Thanks.

[LoganK]

Very nice haljoy...you led him onto the answer without saying a word! how do you do that? 😉

agalligani, please mark this as resolved!