Need help with if statement to display correctly in html table

I having a problem getting the $display to display between the <td> tags. This is what the html source looks like when the php code below is executed
<table>
php.com TAKEN<tr>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>


IT SHOULD DISPLAY LIKE THIS
<table>
<tr>
<td>php.com TAKEN</td>
</tr>
</table>

What am I doing wrong? Please help.

<?php
    function checkDomain($domain,$server,$findText){
        // Open a socket connection to the whois server
        $con = fsockopen($server, 43);
        if (!$con) return false;
        
        // Send the requested doman name
        fputs($con, $domain."\r\n");
        
        // Read and store the server response
        $response = ' :';
        while(!feof($con)) {
            $response .= fgets($con,128); 
        }
        
        // Close the connection
        fclose($con);
        
        // Check the response stream whether the domain is available
        if (strpos($response, $findText)){
            return true;
        }
        else {
            return false;   
        }
    }
    
    function showDomainResult($domain,$server,$findText){
       if (checkDomain($domain,$server,$findText)){
         echo $domain." AVAILABLE";
       }
       echo $domain." TAKEN";
    }
?>

<table>
<?php    
$display = '<tr>
<td>'.showDomainResult("php.com",'whois.crsnic.net','No match for').'</td>
</tr>';
echo $display;
?>
</table>

PHP:

 

i cant seems to find anything wrong with the script =x

 

Try this :

I think the function showDomainResult is outputting rather than returning the result ...

 

Oh yeah, tested using return and it works. great =)

 

Thanks for your help, that worked