Cannot redeclare function

[helmut2509]

Hi,

I wrote a custom php script functions.php which I saved in a folder tslib (same level as templates).

But when I included the script and called one of its functions I got this error:

Error: Cannot redeclare getLandById() (previously declared in .../site/tslib/functions.php:16) (line 16 of .../site/tslib/functions.php)

Moreover, processwire automatically changed my inlude statement to

 include_once(\ProcessWire\wire('files')->compile('../tslib/functions.php',array('includes'=>true,'namespace'=>true,'modules'=>true,'skipIfNamespace'=>true)));

How can I fix this???

 

[adrian]

Probably just a matter of using "include_once" or "require_once" instead of "include". There are several way to prevent PW's file compiler getting involved - do you actually need it off?

[helmut2509]

2 hours ago, adrian said:

Probably just a matter of using "include_once" or "require_once" instead of "include". There are several way to prevent PW's file compiler getting involved - do you actually need it off?

I tried both of them : "include" and "include_once" but the error persisted.

I don't know how PW's file compiler works and if deactivating it would solve my problem...

[adrian]

Sorry - I didn't notice that in your code example you were already using include_once - it seemed like that was the obvious reason for the issue.

You shouldn't have to turn off the file compiler to get things working - it takes care of things if you're not namespacing your template files.

There must be something that is declaring that function more than once, but if you are certain that all calls to it are using include_once, then I would start by clearing out /site/assets/cache/FileCompiler

[SamC]

I remember a while back another member had something like this. Not sure it's related but worth a shot.