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Get command

Help, do not understand the get command.

output.php
<?php
include ("falvor.php");
$flavor = (get_flavor); {
echo "<p>Hal's favorite flavor is $get_flavor!</p>";
}
?>

1 Answer

What's up man...

To call a function in php we simply use the function name followed by parenthesis. get_sflavor() accepts no parameter and returns a piece of text so we can just call it like below:

$flavor = get_flavor();