parse error but not sure why

demonicfoetus

Hi there, is this code valid, i seems ok to me but i get a parse error:

<html>
<head>
<title> test</title>
</head>
<body>

<?
echo "<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">; 
echo "<a href=\"http://www.majesticarts.co.uk/exordium/navengine.php?$location=$location+10">North</a> 
echo "- $areadata[19]</font><p align=\"left\"></p>";
?>

</body>
</html>

Thanks,
DF

nnichols

You haven't terminated the string in the first line (and second line) of your php code -

<?
echo "<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">"; 
echo "<a href=\"http://www.majesticarts.co.uk/exordium/navengine.php?$location=$location+10\">North</a>";
echo "- $areadata[19]</font><p align=\"left\"></p>";
?>

Hope this helps 😉

nnichols

You probably want to drop the "$" after the "?" in your URL as well -

navengine.php?location=$location+10">

suntra

If you want to print a numeric value which is a variable plus something ($location + 10), you have to do this :

<?
echo "<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">"; 
echo "<a href=\"http://www.majesticarts.co.uk/exordium/navengine.php?location=" . ($location + 10) . "\">North</a>";
echo "- $areadata[19]</font><p align=\"left\"></p>";
?>

If you don't do that, you will have something like (if $location = 155, example...) : $location=155+10. Also, as I did, remove the $ after the ?. If you don't, it will not print the word "location", but the content of $location...

demonicfoetus

I've applied that to the whole section of the code with copy and pasting and changing the names but i get another error. It says on line 15. Sorry about this.

<html>
<head>
<title>test</title>
</head>
<body>
<?
echo "<img border=\"0\" src=\"$areadata[5].jpg\" width=\"182\" height=\"73\">";
echo "<p align=\"center\">";
echo "<font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">$areadata[3]</font></p>";
echo "<p align=\"center\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><i>$areadata[4]</i></font>";
echo "<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">"; 
echo "<a href=\"http://www.majesticarts.co.uk/exordium/navengine.php?location=" . ($location + 10) . "\">North</a>";
echo "- $areadata[19]</font><p align=\"left\"></p>";
echo "<font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">;
echo "<a href=\"http://www.majesticarts.co.uk/exordium/navengine.php?location=" .($location + 1) . "\">East</a>";
echo "- $areadata[22]</font><p align=\"left\">";
echo "<font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">;
echo "<a href=\"http://www.majesticarts.co.uk/exordium/navengine.php?location=" .($location - 10) . "\">South</a>";
echo "- $areadata[25]</font><p align=\"left\">";
echo "<font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">;
echo "<ahref=\"http://www.majesticarts.co.uk/exordium/navengine.php?location=" .($location - 1) . "\">West</a>";
echo "- $areadata[28]</font><p align="left">";
?>
</body>
</html>

nnichols

You've neglected to escape all of the "s inside the strings and you forgot to close a couple of the lines -

<html>
<head>
<title>test</title>
</head>
<body>
<?
echo "<img border=\"0\" src=\"$areadata[5].jpg\" width=\"182\" height=\"73\">";
echo "<p align=\"center\">";
echo "<font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">$areadata[3]</font></p>";
echo "<p align=\"center\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><i>$areadata[4]</i></font>";
echo "<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">"; 
echo "<a href=\"http://www.majesticarts.co.uk/exordium/navengine.php?location=" . ($location + 10) . "\">North</a>";
echo "- $areadata[19]</font><p align=\"left\"></p>";
echo "<font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">";
echo "<a href=\"http://www.majesticarts.co.uk/exordium/navengine.php?location=" .($location + 1) . "\">East</a>";
echo "- $areadata[22]</font><p align=\"left\">";
echo "<font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">";
echo "<a href=\"http://www.majesticarts.co.uk/exordium/navengine.php?location=" .($location - 10) . "\">South</a>";
echo "- $areadata[25]</font><p align=\"left\">";
echo "<font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">";
echo "<a href=\"http://www.majesticarts.co.uk/exordium/navengine.php?location=" .($location - 1) . "\">West</a>";
echo "- $areadata[28]</font><p align=\"left\">";
?>
</body>
</html>

Hope this helps 😉

demonicfoetus

bugger

Parse error: parse error, expecting ','' or';'' in /home/majesticaruk/public_html/exordium/navengine.php on line 62

🙁

nnichols

Which line is 62?

demonicfoetus

one of these, my php editor prog is slightly out of lines with the server processor, dunno why and i always forget by how many.

echo "<font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">$areadata[3]</font></p>";
echo "<p align=\"center\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><i>$areadata[4]</i></font>";
echo "<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">";

nnichols

The only problem I can think of is that maybe there's an unescaped double quote in one of your variables.

demonicfoetus

which?
and wot does escaped me?

nnichols

When you include a " (double quote) in a string that is encapsulated in "" (double quotes) you escape it using \". The same goes for single quotes.

If you can't figure it out, post again including a zipped file containing the full code for this page and a sample data dump so I can have a thorough look through.