parse error on closing tag

[rebecca]

please help!

I'm testing part of a whois program - just the part that finds the extension and then splits the name from the extension. I think the code is commented enough so you can see what I'm trying to achieve. The problem is that it chucks up a parse error telling me that the last line of code is wrong. The last line of code consists only of the php closing tag so I have no clue what's going on (or rather why it's not going on). Any and all help is appreciated . . .
My code follows:

class WhoisClass {
var $wholedomain = ""; //name.extn
var $name = "";
var $extn = "";

var $errArray = array ();
var $errstr = "";

var $whois = "";
var $whoisport = "";
var $whoisip = "";
var $whoisrecurse = "N";
var $validpattern = "";
var $availablepattern = "";

var $extnhandler = "";

var $BUFFER = 0; //read buffer char by char

var $rawwhoisArray = array();
var $resultArray = array();

// constructor
function WhoisClass($domainName) {
$this->wholedomain = strtolower(preg_replace("/[\n\s]/", "", $domainName));
$domparts = explode('.', $this->wholedomain);
$last = array_pop($domparts);
$negOne = array_pop($domparts);
$negTwo = array_pop($parts);
//to cope with 3-level tlds
$this->name = implode ('.', $domparts);
// for 3-level
$this->extn = $negTwo.'.'.$negOne.'.'.$last;
//see if can find a matching 3-level extension in the db
$this->extn = match_extn($this->extn);
if ($extnMatched = TRUE) {
//proceed with whois
//$this->rawwhois = get_whois($this->wholedomain);
} else {
/we push the 'first extension bit' from the extension onto the name to create a 2-level extn/
$domparts = array_push($domparts, $negTwo);
$this->name = implode('.', $wholedomain);
$this->extn = $negOne.'.'.$last;
$this->extn = match_extn($this->extn);
if ($extnMatched = TRUE) {
//proceed with whois
//$this->rawwhois = get_whois($this->wholedomain);
} else {
//and so shunt to name and make 1-level extn
$domparts = array_push ($domparts, $negOne);
$this->name = implode ('.', $domparts);
$this->extn = $last;
$this->extn = match_extn($this->extn);
if ($extnMatched = TRUE) {
//proceed with whois
//$this->rawwhois = get_whois($this->wholedomain);
} else {
//we have no gone through all possible match opportunities
$this->errstr = "Sorry, domain is not supported. Please check your spelling.";
array_push($this->errArray, "/n".$this->errstr);
}
//result stuff
if (count($errArray) != 0){
echo "The following error(s) were encountered:";
foreach($errArray as $line) {
echo "\$errArray: $line.\n";
}
} elseif (count($resultArray)!=0) {
echo "The results for your query on \$wholedomain are as follows:\n";
foreach($resultArray as $line) {
echo "\$resultArray: $line.\n";
}
}//end result stuff
}//end constructor

function match_extn($extn){
$domainQueryDB = new DBClass;
$match_result = query( "SELECT * FROM domaintype WHERE suffix = $this->extn");
if(!empty ($match_result)) {
//take out what we need from the domaintype table by item name
//$myrow = mysql_fetch_array($match_result)
//can we extract from the db as follows?
//$myrow["whois"] = $this->whois;
$this->extnMatched = TRUE;
return $this->extnMatched;
} else {
$this->extnMatched = FALSE;
return $this->extnMatched;
}
}//end function

}//end class

?>

[rebecca]

and I'm very sorry about the messy code! Should i have put tabs instead of spaces in my code to make it show up properly?

reb

[jesus_hairdo]

what a parse error on the line with ?> on it generally means is that there is a matching piece off code missing, ie an open bracket without a closing one, an open quote without the closing quote,
i think that in the
,
"...
elseif (count($resultArray)!=0) {
echo "The results for your query on \$wholedomain are as follows:\n";
foreach($resultArray as $line) {
echo "\$resultArray: $line.\n";
}
..."

block of code you have a } missing at the end

check that see if that makes a difference.
i normally find either marking all open { and close } with comments and / or indenting so your code would read,
"...
elseif (count($resultArray)!=0)
{ //start elseif
echo "The results for your query on
\$wholedomain are as follows:\n";
foreach($resultArray as $line)
{ //start foreach
echo "\$resultArray: $line.\n";
} //end for each
} // end elseif (-- this is whats missing)

}//end result stuff
}//end constructor

Jamie

[rebecca]

Thank-you :-)

I found the (three!) extra tags where I'd made some really silly errors in the way my code was put together (else has to follow the if it goes with and not be dangling loosely elsewhere in the code. nevermind.

i had indented, it just gets lost when i post. i don't know why. None of your code has shown up as indented either though so i guess it's not just me.

reb