how a function 'return' statement works

Can anyone give my puny mind an explanation as to why the following function only returns the value "Array" ? # =============================================================== # get_current_page_name() # --------------------------------------------------------------- # Returns the current document # Arguments # ----------- # no arguments # =============================================================== function get_current_page_name() { $current_page_name = explode("/", $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']); $current_page_name = array_slice($current_page_name, -1); return $current_page_name; } (I know this does the same thing as 'basename("$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'])', I just want to understand something a bit more fundamental to the way functions work) Thanks, Erik ---- Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown pricee@hhbrown.com