module function code problem

Posted by prabirchoudhury on July 4, 2009 at 6:42am

I am learning as a legenner stage. i have installed drupal in my local pc with wamp server. i am writing personal module on sites/all/modules/mymodule/mymodule.module .

i have wrote my function

function mymodule_help($path, $arg) {
  $output = ''; 
  switch ($path) {
    case "admin/help#mymodule":
      $output = '<p>'.  t("this the first hello from the function") .'</p>';
      break;
  }
  return $output;
} 

i have enabled module but when i run the site page then on the top of the page php code showing bellow part

 ;break;
  }
  return $output;

could any one help please what i am missing here

Comments

try following the module development docs

Posted by junedkazi on July 4, 2009 at 12:04pm

try following the module development docs and it should work
http://drupal.org/node/231276

Just a silly question just to check. Did you put the php tag
at the top of the file.

thanks

Posted by prabirchoudhury on July 5, 2009 at 4:02am

yes you are right was a silly mistake <php instead of <?php thanks a lot