Fatal Error: cannot redefine...fixes found not working

CK9 · May 24, 2012

Hello,

I've been playing around with a coding experiment that I did previously. I've been teaching myself javascript and css to take some of the load off the server side of things, but in changing my code, I've come to a new error:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare tablestart() (previously declared in /home/ck9/public_html/planning/forumbuild/list.php:10) in /home/ck9/public_html/planning/forumbuild/list.php on line 13

The first thing I did was search for the error. I don't have the function declared more than once, and include_once() did not fix the issue.

Here is what I have:

list.php which has not changed and worked fine prior to making the changes:

<?php
include("db.class.php");
include("db.config.php");

$db = new databaseConnection($config['user'],$config['pass'],$config['database']);
$g = $_GET['g'];
$s = $_GET['s'];
$t = $_GET['t'];

function tablestart($a = '1')
  {
   echo "<table border='" . $a . "' cellpadding='10' cellspacing='0' align='center' width='80%' style='color: #C0C0C0'>\n";
  }

function contents($db, $table, $a, $b = '1', $c = '1')
  {
   $db->query("SELECT * FROM $table");

   while($row = $db->fetch_array())
    {
     if($row['level'] <= $_SESSION['ulevel'])
      {
       echo "<tr><td width='5%'><!--indicator--></td><td width='80%'><a href='index.php?pg=h&g='" . $row['g'];
       if(($a > '1') && ($row['g'] == $b))
        {
         echo "&s=" . $row['s'];
         if(($a > '2') && ($row['s'] == $c))
          {
           echo "&t=" . $row['t'];
          }
        }
      }
     echo "' style='color: #C0C0C0 ; text-decoration: none'><font size='4'>" . $row['name'] . "</font><br /><fpnt size='3'>" . $row['desc'] . "</td><td width='15%'><!--last update--></td></tr>\n";
    }
  }

if(empty($_SESSION['ulevel']))
  {
   $_SESSION['ulevel'] = '0';
   echo "<font color='#CC0000'><center>You need to register to post in these forums.</center></font><br />\n";
  }

if(empty($g))
  {
   tablestart();
   contents($db, 'fgroup', '1');
   echo "</table>\n";
  }
elseif(empty($s))
  {
   tablestart();
   contents($db, 'section', '2', $g);
   echo "</table>\n";
  }
elseif(empty($t))
  {
   tablestart('0');
   echo "<tr><td width='80%'></td><td><!--new topic--></td></tr>\n</table>\n";
   tablestart();
   contents($db, 'topic', '3', $g, $s);
   echo "</table>\n";
  }
elseif(!empty($t))
  {
   tablestart('0');
   echo "<tr><td width='80%'></td><td><!--new topic and reply--></td></tr>\n</table>\n";
   $data = file_get_contents('post.txt');
   $post = explode("<!--p-->", $data);
   $length = count($post);
   tablestart('1');
   for($z = '0'; $z < $length; $z ++)
    {
     $i = '0';
     $cont = explode("<!--e-->", $post[$pos]);
     echo "<tr><td><b>" . $cont[$i] . "</b><br /><!--future additions--></td><td>\n<table width='100%' style='font-size: xx-small'>\n<tr><td height='3' width='75%'>";
     $i ++;
     echo "Posted on" . $cont[$i] . "</td><td height='3' width='25%'><!--future additions--></td></tr><tr><td width='100%'>";
     $i ++;
     echo $cont[$i] . "</td></tr></table></td></tr>\n";
    }
   echo "</table>\n";
  }
?>

index.php with the original code set within an extended comment:

<?php
session_start();

if(empty($_GET['pg']))
  {
   $pg = 'h';
  }
else
  {
   $pg = $_GET['pg'];
  }

switch($pg)
  {
   case 'h':
    $a = 'home';
    $b = 'tlsection-h';
    include_once('list.php');
    break;
   case 'p':
    $a = 'posting';
    $b = 'tlsection-p';
    include('post.php');
    break;
   case 'l':
    $a = 'logging';
    $b = 'tlsection-l';
    include('log.php');
    break;
   case 'v':
    $a = 'verification';
    $b = 'tlsection-v';
    include('verify.php');
    break;
   case 'm':
    $a = 'members';
    $b = 'tlsection-m';
    include('mem.php');
    break;
  }
?>

<html>
<head>
  <!-- meta tags to go here -->

<?php
echo "  <title>Omega Command - Forum - " . $a . "</title>\n";
?>

  <!-- Special thanks to TH300 for letting me look through his css coding to learn from it -->
  <link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='style.css' />
</head>
<body>
  <div class='PageBody'>

<?php
echo "   <div class='" . $b . "'>\n";
?>

    <div class='HeaderSection'>
     <div class='HeaderBanner'>
      <img src='elements/headbar2.png' alt='Yup, it's a forum'>
     </div>
     <div class='NavBar'>

<?php
require_once('navigation.php');
?>
     </div>
    </div>
    <!-- end header -->
    <div class='MainSection'>
     <div class='NavMenu'>
      <!-- need to figgure out what goes here -->
     </div>
     <!-- end nav menu -->
     <div class='contents'>

<?php
pageswitch($pg);
?>

     </div>
     <!-- end contents -->
    </div>
    <!-- end main section -->
    <div class='FooterSection'>
     <!-- optional footer image -->
    </div>
    <!-- end footer section -->
   </div>
  </div>
</body>
</html>


/*<?php
session_start();
?>
<body bgcolor='#000000'>
<?php
function pageswitch($pg)
  {
   include("header.php");
   switch ($pg)
    {
     case 'h':
      include('list.php');
      break;
     case 'p':
      include('post.php');
      break;
     case 'l':
      include('log.php');
      break;
     case 'v':
      include('verify.php');
      break;
     case 'm':
      include('mem.php');
      break;
    }
   include('footer.html');
  }
?>
<table width='100%' border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' align='center'>
<tr><td width='100%'><center><img src='elements/headbar.png'></center></td></tr>
<tr><td width='100%' height='2' bgcolor='#C0C0C0'></td></tr><tr><td height ='10' width='100%'>

<?php
require('navigation.php');
?>

</td></tr>
<tr><td width='100%' height='2' bgcolor='#C0C0C0'></td></tr>
</table>
<table width='100%' border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' align='center'><tr>

<?php
if(empty($_GET['pg']))
  {
   $page = 'h';
  }
else
  {
   $page = $_GET['pg'];
  }

if($page == 'h' && !isset($_GET['g']))
  {
   echo "<td width='24%'>";
   include('sidebar.php');
   echo "</td><td width='1' height='100%' bgcolor='#C0C0C0'></td><td width='75%'>";
  }
else
  {
   echo "<td width='100%'>";
  }

echo "<br />";

pageswitch($page);
?>

<br /></td></tr></table>
<table width='100%' border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' align='center'>
<tr><td width='100%' height='2' bgcolor='#C0C0C0'></td></tr>
</table><br />
<center><font color='#C0C0C0' size='2'>This forum was coded by CK9 as an experiment with PHP.  It is very basic and does not garuntee security.  Refrain from storing sensitive information here.</center>*/

As you can see, on list.php line 10 is the function declaration and line 13 is the closing brace. From what I see, and the fact this page was working perfectly before the change, this error should not be happening...

Is there something obvious I'm just not seeing?

Kays · May 24, 2012

Yes, you're trying to include_once list.php twice. You had a /* (assuming you commented out), but you weren't in PHP mode and are in HTML mode. so that /* */ didn't really comment it out.

You cannot comment out PHP from executing with  so don't try it.

CK9 · May 24, 2012

and I'm a dumbass >.<

lol, thanks for pointing that out, been so long since I've done anything with php that I didn't even notice that, and you indirectly made me realize something else I missed (removed a function that I actually need to use for the contents to go in the correct location).

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