Function placement

[Sarah Atkinson]

Do defined functions have to be placed at the top of the page or just before the point they are called from?

[cputek2k]

I have placed functions at after the call and it worked fine...

[DaiWelsh]

Neither, PHP interprets the full script before it runs it so it will cope quite happily if the function call is at the top and the function definition at the bottom.

[jatar_k]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld DaiWelsh

[coopster]

Yes, welcome, but be cautious there...

In PHP 3, functions must be defined before they are referenced. No such requirement exists since PHP 4. Except when a function is conditionally defined [...] When a function is defined in a conditional manner [...] Its definition must be processed prior to being called.

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