Parse error: --> ?>

[steadmantech]

Greetings all,

I'm getting a parse error reported on the very last line of my page. The only thing on this line is:
?>
the end tag for my php.

I've made several changes to verify that this is indeed the line which reports the parse error. Any idea what I am doing wrong here?

Any help is appreciated,
Gary Steadman

[Anon]

Check the script itself for errors. Usually this error means you are missing a ', ", (, ), [, ], { or } somewhere in your code.

HTH

[Anon]

the error is most likely on the last line of characters before the ?>

[jc94062]

Raggart is right, its probably a { or }, more than likely a } in fact.

Use some form of editor to find the number of { and }s in your script. I use EditPlus2 (its a free 890k download from download.com).

If you use a find and replace quite often it gives the number of changes, so change { or { (ie no change) and } for } and see if the numbers are the same, if they are, if could be the line above (99% of these being a missing 😉 but at the end of the script, missing braces in the most common reason.

Missing ()s errors are normally reported as being on the line that they occur on.

[Anon]

change the extension to .phps
and look at the pretty colour coding

[steadmantech]

Thanks all for your input!

Raggart & James were right on the money. I had a missing }.

Still doesn't make my code do what I want it to do yet, but at least I am past this error and know what to look for if this happens in the future.

My first shot at some functional coding in php and I've got a lot of learning to do.

Thanks again.