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RAGEnCHAOS

Jun 25 2004, 09:04 PM

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Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ECHO in C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\New File Site\$test.txt on line 3
Lines 1 - 11

CODE

<?php
$table = "$mod"
echo "<table width=\"95%\" border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n";
echo "<tr>\n";
echo "<td width=\"100%\" colspan=\"3\" class=\"attachheader\" align=\"center\"><b><span class=\"gen\">\n";
$result = mysql_query("select * from $table WHERE id = '$id'") or die(mysql_error());
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
echo $row["linkname"];
}
echo "</span></b></td>\n";

as far as i can tell the code looks fine so i am totally lost :-(

Niakie

Jun 25 2004, 09:38 PM

you forgot a semi-colon on line 2

lines 1 and 2 the way they should be...

CODE

<?php
$table = "$mod";

Thats should fix your problem

RAGEnCHAOS

Jun 25 2004, 09:40 PM

omg doh i should have seen that !

thank you Niakie

im just now learning how to convert a normal html page to PHP hehe and so far i got 3 out of 15 so 12 to go hehe

Niakie

Jun 25 2004, 09:55 PM

Not a problem, I was there at one time...

One sugestion I have for you (outside of remembering your semi-colons lol) is to use single quotes when you don't need to have verriables.

for example your code now:

CODE

echo "<table width=\"95%\" border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n";
echo "<tr>\n";

useing single quotes:

CODE

echo '<table width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="center">'."\n";
echo '<tr>'."\n";

The only thing you will need to escape this way are single quotes inside the string... Notice that I ended the string with a single quote, a dot then used double quotes for the new line... I find that this makes it easier to read... What I do if I need a varriable in the string is concatinate it so for example:

CODE

$message = 'Hello World';
echo 'My message today is: '.$message."\n";

There are a lot of good ideas and tips at Sitepoint as well... (right from beginner to super advanced lol) Make sure you check out their forums as well!

MartinB

Jun 26 2004, 12:08 AM

try learning the "templates" methodology, is more clear when the html is completely separated from php code

also, i see you don't have any php code-variable inside the html tags of your post, so you can close the ?> pure html here <? again.

CODE

echo "<table width=\"95%\" border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n";
echo "<tr>\n";

= to

CODE

phpblahblah;
?>
<table width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="center">
<tr>
<?
phpblahblah;

RAGEnCHAOS

Jun 26 2004, 12:52 AM

nah i decided to go all echo and use switch statements and i olny wanted to just keep it simple by doing it the hard way to learn heheh start with a <?php and end with ?> and use it only 1 time heheh

you can see the design at http://www.ragenchaos.com

Enjoy i look forward to comments

Thanks Mike

Niakie

Jun 26 2004, 01:35 AM

I get an error: Table 'ragencha_files.times' doesn't exist

The source code for the page looks like:

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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>RAGEnCHAOS.COM</title>
<link rel="StyleSheet" href="/css/main.css" type="text/css">
<style type="text/css">
@import url("/css/main.css")
</style>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#000000" text="#FFFFFF" background="/images/background.jpg">
Table 'ragencha_files.times' doesn't exist

RAGEnCHAOS

Jun 26 2004, 02:00 AM

sorry was modfying the tables and you caught me at that moment hehe but its fixed now

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