Returning array

I’ve been banging my head on the desk for a while over this. Seems like it should be pretty simple but… not working. Trying to simply return an array from a function.

I have a grid showing database results. If any are in error, there should be notifications as such above the grid.
-I call a function which checks the results for errors, and counts them. Within this function, another function is called to display the notification indicating the quantity of errors. This works properly.

-These notification also provides a link to view the database record in question – primary key ‘id’ is returned in an array from the function. However, the array that I am returning that should contain the ‘id’ of the erroneous record comes out of the function empty. If I var_dump within the function, the array contains the records I would expect it to.

The code for the main page flows like this (code is abbreviated):

include 'header.php'
include 'error_check.php' (file containing the error check function)
include 'notices.php' (file containing the function to display notices)
check_for_errors($qdate, $salesman_id);
if($_REQUEST['view'] = 'nomatch' { include 'nomatch_grid.php' }
if($_REQUEST['view'] = 'unknown' { include 'unknown_grid.php' }
if(!$_REQUEST['view'] { include 'main_grid.php' }

Here is the code for the check_for_errors() function:

function check_for_errors($cfe_date, $salesman_id) {
	global $wpdb;

	$d_year = date('Y', $cfe_date);
	$d_month = date('m', $cfe_date);

	$spiffs = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM spiff_records LEFT JOIN spiff_items ON spiff_records.item = spiff_items.item_number WHERE YEAR(inv_date) = $d_year AND MONTH(inv_date) = $d_month AND salesman_id = $salesman_id ORDER BY inv_date ASC");

	/**
	* RUN THROUGH ALL SPIFFS RETURNED IN MAIN QUERY
	* ASSIGN COUNT OF HOW MANY RECORDS DONT MATCH AN ITEM
	* CREATE ARRAY CONTAINING <code>SPIFF_ID</code> WITH ITEMS THAT DON'T MATCH
	**/
	$nomatchct = 0;
	$nmarray = array();
	foreach($spiffs as $nomatch) {
		if(!$nomatch->item_number && $nomatch->unknown != 1) {
			$nomatchct = $nomatchct + 1;
			$nmarray[] = (string)$nomatch->spiff_id;
		}
	}

	/**
	* RUN THROUGH ALL SPIFFS RETURNED IN MAIN QUERY
	* ASSIGN COUNT OF OUT HOW MANY ARE MARKED AS UNKNOWN BY ADMIN
	* CREATE ARRAY CONTAINING <code>SPIFF_ID</code> WITH RECORDS MARKED AS UNKNOWN
	**/
	$unknownct = 0;
	foreach($spiffs as $unknown) {
		if($unknown->unknown == 1) {
			$unknownct = $unknownct + 1;
			$ukarray[] = (string)$unknown->spiff_id;
		}
	}

	display_notices($unknownct, $nomatchct);
	return $ukarray;
}

Finally, here is the link for the display_notices() function:

function display_notices($unknownct, $nomatchct) {
	if($unknownct > 0) {
		echo '<div class="notice red">';
			echo '<p><strong>NOTICE:</strong> You have ' .$unknownct. ' records with unknown item numbers.  <a href="/view/?view=unknown">Click here to review these entries.</a></p>';
		echo '</div>';
	}

	if($nomatchct > 0) {
		echo '<div class="notice green">';
			echo '<p><strong>NOTICE:</strong> You have ' .$nomatchct. ' records waiting to be reviewed.  <a href="/view/?view=nomatch">Click here to review these entries.</a></p>';
		echo '</div>';
	}
}

Since I am using includes, the check_for_errors() is run no matter which grid we are looking at, so if I return the $ukarray or the $nmarray, I should be able to use those arrays in order to display the records who’s ID is in that array. Or So I thought.

If anyone has time to check this out and let me know what they think I’d greatly appreciate it!!