[SOLVED] how to use this function more than once

[quickstopman]

hi guys i currently have a script that grabs RSS feeds

my one problem is that for the layout im using

i need to while() the function multiple times, and i always get this error

 

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare startelement() (previously declared in /home/pokebash/public_html/socialgrabbr/rss_grabbr.php:15) in /home/pokebash/public_html/socialgrabbr/rss_grabbr.php on line 15

 

here is the function script:

function grabRSS($feed_url) {
$insideitem = false;
$tag = "";
$title = "";
$description = "";
$link = "";


function startElement($parser, $name, $attrs) {
global $insideitem, $tag, $title, $description, $link;
if ($insideitem) {
	$tag = $name;
} elseif ($name == "ITEM") {
	$insideitem = true;
}
}


function endElement($parser, $name) {
global $insideitem, $tag, $title, $description, $link;
if ($name == "ITEM") {
                echo "<p align='left'>";   
	printf("<dt><b><a href='%s'>%s</a></b></dt>",
		trim($link),htmlspecialchars(trim($title)));
	printf("<dd>%s</dd>", $description);
                echo "</p><br><br>";
	$title = "";
	$description = "";
	$link = "";
	$insideitem = false;
}
}

function characterData($parser, $data) {
global $insideitem, $tag, $title, $description, $link;
if ($insideitem) {
switch ($tag) {
	case "TITLE":
	$title .= $data;
	break;
	case "DESCRIPTION":
	$description .= $data;
	break;
	case "LINK":
	$link .= $data;
	break;
}
}
}

$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");
xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");
$fp = fopen($feed_url,"r")
or die("Error reading RSS data.");
while ($data = fread($fp, 4096))
xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp))
	or die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d", 
		xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)), 
		xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));
fclose($fp);
xml_parser_free($xml_parser);
}

any ideas or alternatives?

[cooldude832]

the  error is that you didn't close your first function grabRSS()

 

it is lookign like you trying to do some OOP style stuff, if so then look at the OOP subboard

[quickstopman]

no i ended the function

im confused about why its not letting me declare the functions more than once

[cooldude832]

because a function an only be declared once

 

you declare by saying

 

<?php
function do_some_stuff(){
}
do_some_stuff();

do_some_stuff();
?>

[quickstopman]

ok i figured out what i had to do, i just removed all the inner functions out side of the grabRSS() and it works now

thanks guys