Fatal Error: Cannot redeclare partial_str()
 

I helped build a site for a gaming tournament last year, but the php coding was done almost entirely by someone else. It's a pretty sophisticated setup, and I'm still learning php. I got a message that the site was broken and this is the error being thrown when I pull up the site:

As far as I know, none of the 4 people who have ftp access have tinkered with the site. Especially since there isn't a need for updates. Could someone point me in the right direction as to how to fix this?

This message means that you're making a function with the same name twice. In the widgets.php it's being called again but it's already in functions.php. You have to either rename one or remove one.

...Or even maybe you're including the file twice. That's why I use include_once.

That's what I figured the problem was, but I'm wondering why it happened just out of the blue/at random, when the site was fine for the past few months. Hmmm.

Thanks for the replies!