Extremely simple function not working, help?

What are you trying to do?

Shouldn’t you add:

$baboon = getstockstats(‘aapl’);

echo $baboon;

?

What isn’t working, in which line?
What, if any, are the errors shown?

whats the difference between echo and return ?

All I wanted to do was print “yourname is some guy”

I changed to this,

function getstockstats($stocksymbol)
  {
 if ( $stocksymbol == "aapl" ) {
	$result = "Test!<br />";
}
echo $result;
  }

and it worked. But shouldnt returning $result also print it out?

https://php.net/manual/en/function.echo.php
https://php.net/manual/en/function.return.php

however simple functions you are trying to code, you need to learn the basics.

One last question,

function widget($args, $instance)
  {

  function getstockstats($stocksymbol)
  {
	include_once('class.yahoostock.php');
	$objYahooStock = new YahooStock;
	$objYahooStock->addFormat("snl1d1t1cvc1p2");
	$objYahooStock->addStock("msft");

	foreach( $objYahooStock->getQuotes() as $code => $stock)
{
    ?>
    Code: <?php echo $stock[0]; ?> <br />
    Name: <?php echo $stock[1]; ?> <br />
    Last Trade Price: <?php echo $stock[2]; ?> <br />
    Last Trade Date: <?php echo $stock[3]; ?> <br />
    Last Trade Time: <?php echo $stock[4]; ?> <br />
    Change and Percent Change: <?php echo $stock[5]; ?> <br />
    Volume: <?php echo $stock[6]; ?> <br /><br />
    <?php
}

 if ( $stocksymbol == "aapl" ) {
	$result = "Test!<br />";
	echo $result;
}
  }

getstockstats("aapl");
    echo $after_widget;
  }

Why doesn’t my function work when I add the echos inside that foreach loop? I have a feeling it is some sort of permissions issue but am not sure

UGH.

The directory starts in the plugin root and NOT the directory that the file is located in.

I changed
include_once(‘class.yahoostock.php’);
to
include_once(‘prediction-widget/class.yahoostock.php’);

and now it works. ARGH

One more issue

$objYahooStock->addStock(“$stocksymbol”);

That line is getting read as $stocksymbol
What do I have to do change in order to make it read the variable, as opposed to $stocksymbol?

I’ve tried wrapping in braces like

$objYahooStock->addStock(“{$stocksymbol}”);

but it did not work

Solved!

I removed the quotes.

$objYahooStock->addStock($stocksymbol);

Thank you everybody for so much help ??