So I'm pretty new to javascript...right now I'm just writing that dynamic logout button that will go log the user out before reloading the page. I wrote the function (this is actually my entire script.js file):

var scriptLoaded = true;
function confirm_logout()
{
   var logout = GetURL('logout_confirm.php');
   if(logout == 'true')
   {
      location.reload(true);
      return true;
   }
   else
   {
      return false;
   }
}

And then I'm loading it up with this:

<script type="text/javascript" src="script/script.js">
   var scriptLoaded = false;
</script>

So what I'd like is just put it inside an anchor tag, but for the sake of testing (it wasn't working, and I just wanted to slim it down) I did this:

<script type="text/javascript">
   var LoggedOut = false;
   if(scriptLoaded == true)
   {
       LoggedOut = confirm_Logout();
   }
   document.write(LoggedOut);
</script>

Then I run it in chrome and in the debugging console I get the error: Uncaught ReferenceError: confirm_Logout is not defined (anonymous function).

Help me stack overflow, you're my only hope.

So I'm pretty new to javascript...right now I'm just writing that dynamic logout button that will go log the user out before reloading the page. I wrote the function (this is actually my entire script.js file):

var scriptLoaded = true;
function confirm_logout()
{
   var logout = GetURL('logout_confirm.php');
   if(logout == 'true')
   {
      location.reload(true);
      return true;
   }
   else
   {
      return false;
   }
}

And then I'm loading it up with this:

<script type="text/javascript" src="script/script.js">
   var scriptLoaded = false;
</script>

So what I'd like is just put it inside an anchor tag, but for the sake of testing (it wasn't working, and I just wanted to slim it down) I did this:

<script type="text/javascript">
   var LoggedOut = false;
   if(scriptLoaded == true)
   {
       LoggedOut = confirm_Logout();
   }
   document.write(LoggedOut);
</script>

Then I run it in chrome and in the debugging console I get the error: Uncaught ReferenceError: confirm_Logout is not defined (anonymous function).

Help me stack overflow, you're my only hope.

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You need to write confirm_logout, not confirm_Logout (lowercase 'l').

<script type="text/javascript">
   var LoggedOut = false;
   if(scriptLoaded == true)
   {
       LoggedOut = confirm_logout();
   }
   document.write(LoggedOut);
</script>

You can't execute Javascript in a script element if it has a src it's referencing. Also, you defined confirm_logout and you are calling confirm_Logout, capital L which is why you get confirm_Logout is not defined.