note 14046 added to function.require-once.php

since my pages are very long and they use the same layout, i separated parts of the pages which repat themselves in every page and required them and require_once'd the function i use in them on the page so the page looks like this :: -------------------- <?php require_once("./inc/funct.in.php"); ... start_html(); require("./header.inc.php"); require("./menu.inc.php"); ?> blah! <?php require("./footer.inc.php"); end_html(); ?> -------------------- :: ad the problem is that in menu.inc.php, i use a function named break() declared and defined in funct.inc.php. i have many ohter functions un funct.inc.php that work very well in menu.inc.php but for break(), it wont work. this is the error given: :: -------------------- Parse error: parse error, expecting `T_STRING' in ./inc/funct.inc.php on line 2 -------------------- :: and here is the beginning of funct.inc.php: :: -------------------- <?php function break() { echo "&lt;br&gt;\n"; } function make_link($link,$name) { echo "<a href='".$link."'>".$name."</a>"; } ... ?> -------------------- :: make_link is a function i also use in menu.inc.php and it WORKS!!! this sounds weird!! http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.require-once.php