PROS! Coding help please! Alternating table row colors!

[brianb]

Hello,

Can ANYONE please tell me why this code is returning a PARSE ERROR?

//if news exists
if( mysql_num_rows($res) > 0 )
{
   echo "<table width='80%' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='3'>";
   echo "<tr><td colspan='2'><span class='main4'><font color='#990000'><u>$movie Headlines:</u></font></span></td></tr>";

   while ( $news = mysql_fetch_array( $res ) )
   {

   // Define colors for the alternating rows

$color1_=_"#333333";
$color2_=_"#FF0000";
$row_count_=_0;

   $row_color_=_($row_count_%_2)_?_$color1_:_$color2;

     echo "<tr bgcolor='$row_color' valign='top'><td width='0%'><img src='/media/build/front_page/arrows4.gif' width='7' height='8'> </td><td width='100%'><a href='/news/news.php?id=$news[news_ID]' class='main'><u>$news[title]</u></a><br>";
	if ( $news[caption] == '' )
	     {
	echo "<span class='small'>$news[thedate]</span></td></tr>";
         }

	else {
          echo "<span class='small'>$news[thedate] - $news[caption]</span></td></tr>";
         }

	// Add 1 to the row count
	$row_count++;
   }
   echo "</table>";
}

Any help is deeply appreciated! Thanks!

[nnichols]

If the code posted here is as it is in your script, then the error is being caused by the underscores ("_"), as in the following to lines -

$color1_=_"#333333";
$color2_=_"#FF0000";

[brianb]

Weird...

No those aren't in my script...

My code looks like so:

//if news exists
if( mysql_num_rows($res) > 0 )
{
echo "<table width='80%' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='3'>";
echo "<tr><td colspan='2'><span class='main4'><font color='#990000'><u>$movie Headlines:</u></font></span></td></tr>";

while ( $news = mysql_fetch_array( $res ) )
{

// Define colors for the alternating rows

$color1_=_"#333333";
$color2_=_"#FF0000";
$row_count_=_0;

$row_color=($row_count%2)?$color1:$color2;

     echo "<tr bgcolor='$row_color' valign='top'><td width='0%'><img src='/media/build/front_page/arrows4.gif' width='7' height='8'> </td><td width='100%'><a href='/news/news.php?id=$news[news_ID]' class='main'><u>$news[title]</u></a><br>";
	if ( $news[caption] == '' )
	     {
	echo "<span class='small'>$news[thedate]</span></td></tr>";
         }

	else {
          echo "<span class='small'>$news[thedate] - $news[caption]</span></td></tr>";
         }

	// Add 1 to the row count
	$row_count++;

}
echo "</table>";
}

Seems that the parse error lies somewhere in here:

$color1="#333333";
$color2="#FF0000";
$row_count=0;

$row_color=($row_count%2)?$color1:$color2;

Any ideas?

[Weedpacket]

What does the error message actually say? And why are there so many _ characters in your code?

I don't get a parse error.