use a return in an include within a function

[Schnix]

Hi!

I have the following setup.

• index.php
  calls a function to show tabs with content (showcontent() in class interface)

• interface.php (class: interface)
  showTabs() checks if all login prerequisites has been completed. If not it calls

controlRoutines($moduleitem) (class: interface)
This fetches a list of modules passed to the class, and includes files based on which modules are authorized. This file is loaded by an include in this method.

$Moduleitem = 2 in this case

code:

$output = include_once 'mdb_routines/module'.$moduleitem.'.php';

echo $output; // For debug: this outputs correctly

return $output; // This does NOT send the value $output;

this should return the content of the following file:

if (!isset($_SESSION['sender'])) {

$routines = 'HTML FORM HERE';

return $routines;
}

else {
	return false; 
}

As you can see, I can not return the value $output back to showTabs(). It will return this value: ( 2 )

What is wrong here?

PS: I've been trying different things, but this my latest attempt/code