Re: function returning true or errors

function custom_function() { if ($error == 0) { return true; } else { return "Error!"; } } if (custom_function() != "Error!") { echo "Success"; } else { echo "Error"; } Also, you could still return false on your custom_function(), if before the return you $_SESSION['error'] = 'Error!';. Then you could check for false or true with your if (custom_function()) and echo/unset the $_SESSION['error'] part. -- Julio Nobrega. Um dia eu chego lá: http://sourceforge.net/projects/toca Ajudei? Salvei? Que tal um presentinho? http://www.submarino.com.br/wishlistclient.asp?wlid=664176742884 "Erik Price" <pricee@hhbrown.com> wrote in message news:741A20E9-52E0-11D6-932F-0050E4857868@hhbrown.com... > > I am writing a function that performs some actions. I would like to > return true if the actions succeed, or return an error message if the > actions fail. How should I go about it? The following code doesn't do > it, because the returned error message is interpreted as a boolean > "true" (I think that's what's happening): > > if (custom_function() == true) { > print "Custom Function succeeded!"; > } else { > print custom_function(); > } > > I would actually rather just have the error message generated by the > script that calls the function, but the function performs some logic > that determines what kind of error message to give. I was thinking of > having the function return "1" if succeeds, "2" if error code A, or > "3" > if error code B, and then a switch statement could decide what to do in > the calling script -- but does this sound sloppy? > > > Erik > > > > > ---- > > Erik Price > Web Developer Temp > Media Lab, H.H. Brown > pricee@hhbrown.com >