Function Confusion

[Skookum]

I have a function that I use to break large text files into smaller files, and it works great, except that for some reason I can't have any PHP code directly after the function.

Basically I am really confused right now as to what could be causing this.
Here is my function

function FileBreakByLine($FileRead, $FileWriteName, $LineCount){
    if(substr($FileRead, -2) == "gz"){
        $FileOpen = fopen($FileRead, "rb");
        fseek($FileOpen, -4, SEEK_END);
        $buf = fread($FileOpen, 4);
        $GZFileSize = end(unpack("V", $buf));
        fclose($FileOpen);
        $HandleRead = gzopen($FileRead, "rb");
        $ContentRead = gzread($HandleRead, $GZFileSize);
    }
    else{
        $HandleRead = fopen($FileRead, "rb");
        $ContentRead = fread($HandleRead, filesize($FileRead)); 
    }

    $Lines = explode("\n", $ContentRead);
    
    $TotalGroups = (intval(count($Lines) / $LineCount) + 2);
    
    Echo "Total Lines: ". count($Lines) ."<br>";
    Echo "Total Groups: ". $TotalGroups ."<br>";
    
    for($q = 0; $q < $TotalGroups; $q++){
        for($x = ($q * $LineCount); $x < (($q * $LineCount) + $LineCount); $x++){
            $Text[] = $Lines[$x];
            if($x == count($Lines)){
                $ScriptComplete = 1;
                break;
            }
        }
        $FileText = implode("\n", $Text);
        $FileWrite = $FileWriteName . $q .'.txt';
        $HandleWrite = fopen($FileWrite, "w");
        $ContentWrite = fwrite($HandleWrite, $FileText);
        unset($Text);
        if($ScriptComplete == 1){
            break;
        }
    }
    
    if(substr($FileRead, -2) == "gz"){
        gzclose($HandleRead);
    }
    else{
        fclose($HandleRead);
    }
    
    fclose($HandleWrite);
} 

Calling that function on it's own works perfectly fine when I do it like this

require 'Includes/PHPFunctions.php';

FileBreakByLine('data/BigFile.txt', 'Data/Test', '1200') 

But when I try something like this

require 'Includes/PHPFunctions.php';

FileBreakByLine('data/BigFile.txt', 'Data/Test', '1200')
echo "Yay"; 

Nothing comes up on the screen. I turned error reporting on and still just a blank screen.

So I got clever and did this

<?php
require 'Includes/PHPFunctions.php';

FileBreakByLine('data/BigFile.txt', 'Data/Test', '1200')
?>
<?php
echo "Yay";
?>

And it works fine.

I know this has to be something simple, but I just don't know what it could be.

Any help?

[kigoobe]

And what about this?

<?
require 'Includes/PHPFunctions.php'; 

FileBreakByLine('data/BigFile.txt', 'Data/Test', '1200'); 
echo "Yay"; 

?>

You are missing the ; at the end of your function. Result, php is taking that as a single line, like you are calling a function like

FileBreakByLine('data/BigFile.txt', 'Data/Test', '1200')echo "Yay"; 

which was not making any sense ...

[Skookum]

Wow, I need a break.

Thanks for pointing that out it works perfectly now. I knew it was something simple, I just didn't want it to be something that simple.

Thanks for the help.

[kigoobe]

Yeah ... that day I wasted more than 5 hours because I was missing a space. I was having a list seperated by a comma and a space, and then I was exploding with only a comma.

Happens sometime ...

[Mittineague]

reminds of a problem I had a few weeks ago. I accidently hit the backtick - ` and it was throwing a parse error several lines down. The darn thing is so small I didn't see it (thought it was dust on the screen) for a good hour.