line numbers past filesize: parse error

[Anon]

I'm writing a small php-script managing a little mysql database for a governmental institute.

I'm afraid i hence cannot provide you with source directly, so please ask me anything when you need to know anything to solve the problem.

here it is:

Sometimes, when i uploaded the script, it works...
now i change something in the html, and all the sudden when i uploaded it, to verify the script, the php parser says:

Parse error: parse error in /usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/test/php/manage.php on line 412

but the source code is only 407 lines long?!

does anyone know a possible cause for this?
please let me know.

by the way, maybe this has something to do with it, i use this type of controlling the html:

<?
if ( strcmp ( $HTTP_GET_VARS [ "action" ], "show" ) == 0 )
{
?>

HTML GOES HERE

<?
} // end if line ...
?>

it should work ...

please help me...

thanks in advance

drm

[terje-s]

Usually the reason things like this happen, is you forgot a closing }, or some other termination.

Comment out sections you suspect have errors, reload the page, if it still gives error, remove comments and comment out something else. This usually helps me finding such errors.

Controlling html the way you showed has never caused any problems for me, and I don't see why it should for you 😉