Title: Conflict with phpbb functions
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Conflict with phpbb functions

 *  [plazz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/plazz/)
 * (@plazz)
 * [23 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conflict-with-phpbb-functions/)
 * Hi,
    I use a script called phpBB FetchAll on the same page as wordpress. It basically
   grabs the latest topics from phpBB and prints them on my index page. Whenever
   I do an upgrade of wordpress (or b2), it says that the function make_clickable
   has already been defined by phpBB. My only solution is to replace all of the 
   make_clickable’s in wordpress to make_clickable_b2. I’m still only learning PHP,
   is there an easier way to do this?

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 *  [eadz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eadz/)
 * (@eadz)
 * [23 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conflict-with-phpbb-functions/#post-21584)
 * hmm .
    Maybe if(!function_exists(“make_clickable”)) { function make_clickable(
   $text) { . … } } in the wordpress code
 *  Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/)
 * (@matt)
 * [23 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conflict-with-phpbb-functions/#post-21586)
 * That’s what I would recommend.
 *  [wduluoz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wduluoz/)
 * (@wduluoz)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conflict-with-phpbb-functions/#post-22293)
 * Would you suggest the same thing for get_userdata? There is a conflict between
   PHPBB and WordPress with this function. I renamed them, but if you think this
   would work better, I will change it over.
 *  [yosmc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yosmc/)
 * (@yosmc)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conflict-with-phpbb-functions/#post-22294)
 * I just came here to report the same problem. I don’t think eadz’ solution is 
   recommendable because then wordpress would use the phpbb function, and unless
   it’s identical (wonder why it should be?) it will cause problems.
 * Maybe it would be possible for the wordpress team to slightly change the name
   of these two functions for the next release (afaik phpbb is older code, otherwise
   I’d go over there and propose it to them). Thanks for listening!

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [yosmc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yosmc/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conflict-with-phpbb-functions/#post-22294)
 * Status: not resolved

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