parse error : unexpected $

[Anon]

Please help me on this. I am a PHP newbie working through tutorials in Welling and Thomson's PHP and MySQL book. They do not reply back so here it is, you all will probably laugh: Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in c:\sites\php\secretdb.php on line 73
Line 73 is the last line with a closing php tag "?>". The tag is present to turn off PHP. I have been looking at the script for hours to no avail. Need some fresh help. I'll post the script if necessary.
thanks
Richie

[Anon]

yeah post the script

[Anon]

<?
if(!isset($POST["name"])&&!isset($POST["password"]))

{
//Visitor needs to enter a name and password
?>
<h1>Please Log In</h1>
This page is secret.
<form method = post action = "secretdb.php">
<table border = 1>
<tr>
<th> Username </th>
<td> <input type = text name = name> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th> Password </th>
<td> <input type = password name = password> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan =2 align = center>
<input type = submit value = "Log In">
</td>
</tr>
</form>
<?
}
else
{
// connect to mysql
$mysql = mysql_connect( "localhost", "richie" );
if(!$mysql)
{
echo 'Cannot connect to database.';
exit;
}

// select the appropriate database
$mysql = mysql_select_db( "auth" );
if(!$mysql)
{
  echo 'Cannot select database.';
  exit;
}

// query the database to see if there is a record which matches
$query = " select count(*) 
           FROM auth  
           WHERE auth.name = " .$_POST["name"]. " AND auth.pass = " .$_POST["password"];


$result = mysql_query( $query );
if(!$result)
{
  echo 'Cannot run query.';
  exit;
}

$count = mysql_result( $result, 0, 0 );

if ( $count > 0 )
{
  // visitor's name and password combination are correct
  echo 'Here it is!';
  echo 'I bet you are glad you you can see this secret page.';
}

else
{
  // visitor's name and password combination are not correct
  echo 'Go Away!';
  echo 'You are not authorized to view this resource.';
}

}
?>

[Anon]

I copied and pasted that code and didn't get any parse errors - it ran fine.

Diego

[Anon]

Cool, thanks Diego. I figured it should have run without any parse errors because I examined it to death. For some odd reason I still recieve that error. Oh well.