parce error, please help

phence

I am getting the following parce error

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in /home/www/bla/bla/search.php on line 41

From the following line

echo "\n<tr>\n\t<td bgcolor=\"silver\">" . $data["user_id"] . " will also consider" . $data["wac_1"] . "; " . $data["wac_2"] . "; " "</td>\n</tr>";

where do i need the comma of semicolon??

all help is appreciated

sarahk

lets simplify this

echo "<tr><td bgcolor='silver'>" . $data["user_id"] . " will also consider" . $data["wac_1"] . "; " . $data["wac_2"] . "; </td></tr>\n";

The main problem was at the end "; " "</td>\n</tr>"; where you didn't have the . to concatenate between the two quoted bits.

You also don't need the \n\t stuff, just put them at the end of rows for readability if you must but it makes no difference to the browser.

edwardsbc

Actually, the XML and HTML 4 specifications require double quotes on all attributes. Besides, single quotes are parsed far faster than double quotes (which force PHP to look for embeded variables for substitution). Note, however, that sinqle quotes won't substitute tab and newline escape sequences (\n \r).

echo '<tr><td bgcolor="silver">'.$data['user_id'].' will also consider'.$data['wac_1'].'; '.$data['wac_2'].'; </td></tr>';

Weedpacket

Actually, the XML and HTML 4 specifications require either double or
single quotes on all attributes. Besides the difference in speed between
parsing double and single quotes is negligible unless there are variables
being interpolated in the former.

Let's simplify (and accelerate) further:

?>
<tr><td bgcolor="silver"><?php echo $data['user_id']?> will also consider <?php echo $data['wac_1']?>; <?php echo $data['wac_2']?>; </td></tr>
<?php