Re: Problem with a my function and a simple mail

On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, n e t b r a i n wrote: > Hi, > > in order to print some values submitted by a client form in a simply email > in text format, I've tried to write in php3 a simple function that doesn't > seem to work right ... > > function list_my_values($var_array) { > while(list($key,$value)=each($var_array)) { > echo("".stripslashes(strip_tags(escapeshellcmd($key))).": > ".stripslashes(strip_tags(escapeshellcmd($value))).""); > } > } You want your function to return the text, not echo it. So instead of using an echo, set a string and concatenate onto it in the while loop, then return the string when the while loop finishes. function list_my_values($var_array) { while( list($key,$val) = each($var_array) ) { $output .= yaddayadda } return $output; } Matt