Cannot redeclare function (php error)

[TottoBennington]

Here´s the code ... this file is articles.php

<?php

if(!function_exists('get_articles1')){
function get_articles1() { //error is in this line
             $articles = array ();

	     $query = mysql_query("SELECT  * FROM articles ");


	     while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query)){
			  
			$articles[] = array (
			'article_id' => $row ['article_id'],
			'article_title' => $row['article_title'],
			'article_likes' => $row ['article_likes'],
			'article_description' => $row['article_description'],
			'article_date' => $row['article_date'],
			'article_admin' => $row['article_admin']
				  
			 );
	     } return $articles;
}           
}
?>

 

This is my index page code .. i call to the function here :

			<?php

			 $articles = get_articles1();
			?>

[MMDE]

What makes you think you can call on the function if it's in another file? It's not like PHP goes through all your files looking for it.

Or is this not the problem?

 

Do you want to declare the function twice?

[Jessica]

I'd recommend doing a find-all on your entire directory looking for that function name. It must be being included more than once.

Checking if the function exists is not a great way to handle this, you should probably work on your include structure to make sure it's only included once. include_once helps.