I want to send my users to different pages based on user action. So I made multiple functions at the top of the page like so:
You're getting that error because your script has already produced output (you used echo/print before calling header()). You need to call header() before your script produces any output.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.header.php
Remember that header() must be called before any actual output is sent, either by normal HTML tags, blank lines in a file, or from PHP. It is a very common error to read code with include(), or require(), functions, or another file access function, and have spaces or empty lines that are output before header() is called. The same problem exists when using a single PHP/HTML file.
You'll get the following error when you attempt to call header() after sending any output...
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent