How to solve: Fatal error: Cannot redeclare [function name]

This means you're either using the same function/class name twice and need to rename one of them, or it is because you have used require or include where you should be using require_once or include_once.

When a class or a function is declared in PHP, it is immutable, and cannot later be declared with a new value.

Consider the following code:

class.php

<?php

class MyClass
{
    public function doSomething()
    {
        // do stuff here
    }
}

index.php

<?php

function do_stuff()
{
   require 'class.php';
   $obj = new MyClass;
   $obj->doSomething();
}

do_stuff();
do_stuff();

The second call to do_stuff() will produce the error above. By changing require to require_once, we can be certain that the file that contains the definition of MyClass will only be loaded once, and the error will be avoided.

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