Trouble with functions syntax, please help :(

[Kimomaru]

Hello,

    I'm working on implementing a very simple web page for my learning of PHP (in preparation for implementing with mySQL).  It should be straight forward, but I'm having difficulty understanding how function syntax should work.

 

On my main page, I'm calling a header, footer, and another PHP file;

 

<?php

require('header.php');

 

require_once('site_fns.php');

 

display_site_info();

 

require('footer.php');?>

 

 

The header and footer show up fine up until the site_fns.php syntax, after which everything underneath the header can't be rendered.

 

The site_fns.php file looks like this;

 

<?php

  require_once('data_valid_fns.php');

  require_once('db_fns.php');

  require_once('user_auth_fns.php');

  require_once('output_fns.php');

?>

 

The display_site_info() function is in the output_fns.php file, I'm positive that the problem is here;

 

<?php

function display_site_info() {

?>

  <ul>

  <li>This is test gibberish</li>

  </ul>

}

 

Can someone helpe me understand what I'm doing wrong?  I'm very new to this, so any help would be appreciated.

[requinix]

To close the function you have to go back into PHP code with another <?php.

function display_site_info() {
?>
  </pre>
<ul>
  This is test gibberish
  </ul>

 

[Kimomaru]

Hi requinix,

    Thank you for replying.  I originally tried that before posting (and just tried it now) and it still won't render it   Does that mean that the problem must be somewhere else on the main page?  Confounding . . .

[Kimomaru]

Hi requinix,

    I figured out the problem.  My site_fns.php file was calling up .php files that do not exist yet, so it was running into errors and not rendering the site_fns.php file's content.  When I commented those out, everything works fine now.  Thank you for your help, it was very much appreciated