“Fatal error: Cannot redeclare ”

Question

I have a function(this is exactly how it appears, from the top of my file):

Answer 1

Another possible reason for getting that error is that your function has the same name as another PHP built-in function. For example,

function checkdate($date){
   $now=strtotime(date('Y-m-d H:i:s'));
   $tenYearsAgo=strtotime("-10 years", $now);
   $dateToCheck=strtotime($date);
   return ($tenYearsAgo > $dateToCheck) ? false : true;
}
echo checkdate('2016-05-12');

where the checkdate function already exists in PHP.