still problems with cookies

Anon

there is a error here.. but i cant find the problem can anyone help me..?

this is the error line:

if(ereg("$topic_id([:digit:]+)", $topic_cookie_waarde) {

i can't find the error...
this is the part of the script

if($topic_cookie[$forum_id]) {

$topic_cookie_waarde = $topic_cookie[$forum_id];	

$aantal = count($reply);

if(ereg("$topic_id\([:digit:]+\)", $topic_cookie_waarde) {

	ereg_replace("^(.*)($topic_id)\([:digit:]+\))(.*)$", "\\1\\2($aantal)\\3", $topic_cookie_waarde);

} else {

	$topic_cookie_waarde .= "-$topic_id($aantal)";
}

} else {

$topic_cookie_waarde = "$topic_id($aantal)";

}

$leeftijd = time() + 86400 * 40;

setcookie("topic_cookie[$forum_id]", $topic_cookie_waarde, $leeftijd);

thanx anyway

Derk

ps sorry for my bad english

Anon

Hoi Kriffie :-)

Look at how many ( and ) you have, and where they are...
you are missing one to close the if statement.