include help

I am having trouble with when using include. I am trying to use include in my login function once my SQL statement verify's the username and password I call include so it will redirect the user to the my form for my sql statements when i run the login it shows a blank screen. I know my sql statement is right I have run it in phpadmin and it returns the correct info also I have put an echo statement inside the if statement and it prints so I know the SQL statement working properly. Is there something I am not under standing about include??

here is my login function
<code>
function login($username,$password)
{
$table="login";
$username=trim($username);
$password =trim($password);
$username = stripslashes($username);
$password = stripslashes($password);

$username = mysql_real_escape_string($username);
$password = mysql_real_escape_string($password);

$sqlConfrim = "SELECT * FROM $table WHERE userName = '$username' AND password = '$password'";


$result = mysql_query($sqlConfrim);

$count= mysql_num_rows($result);

if($count == 1)
{

include 'hw7SQLState.php';
echo "hello";
//include 'homework1.php';

}
else
{
echo "your not";
}//end of if
}//end of function</code>