Correct way to use homemade functions

[eluser]tinawina[/eluser]
Thank you Codex and Athfar for the speedy replies!

Athfar - your solution did the trick. I tried yours Codex, but continued to receive that error.

Also Codex - I really was only after a little foundation knowledge. I knew this had to be simple - but couldn't get it to work at all. Of course, now I will try to apply this new-found knowledge to a real application I'm working on. I'm sure I'll be posting again soon....

WalesMD - I did try a print_r and got: Array ( [testing] => Testing this out. [message] => hi there! ) So all is working properly now. Thanks for the tip.

Thanks again and have a great day!