why the parse error

fac

Hi. I'm trying to make a database for storing the results of our weekly doubles match in tennis. I have to associate four names (two from each team) with two or three scores depending on how many sets we play. I'd like to set up a form with drop-down menus for the players and the scores. I thought I'd put the different drop-downs in different cells of a table. I'd like to use the first drop-down to pick the first player from an array (which isn't hooked up to a database yet, I'm just starting to work on the interface). The second, third and fourth drop-downs would have the remaining players,respectively, to choose from. This is my first php project and I can't even get the easy stuff to work. I'm getting an error on the "for" conditional statement and I can't figure out why.

Thanks, Frank

The error I get is: "Parse error: parse error, expecting T_VARIABLE' or'$'' in /home/..."

<?php
$player[] = array("Paul", "Peter", "Bill", "Van", "Frank", "Dave", "Ken", "Brian");
?>
<form action="" method="post" name="tennis_records" target="_self">
<table width="90%" border="0">
<tr>
<td><div align="center">TEAMS</div></td>
<td><div align="center">SET 1</div></td>
<td><div align="center">SET 2</div></td>
<td><div align="center">SET 3</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><select name="player1">
<?php
for ( $i=0; $i< 50 ; $i=++)
{
echo "<option>$player[$i]</option>" ;
}
?>
</select> </td>
<td><select name="score_a">
</select> </td>
<td><select name="score_c">
</select> </td>
<td><select name="score_e">
</select> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><select name="player2">
</select> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><select name="player3">
</select> </td>
<td><select name="score_b">
</select> </td>
<td><select name="score_d">
</select> </td>
<td><select name="score_f">
</select> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><select name="player4">
</select> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

stolzyboy

<?
for ($i = 0; $i <= 50; $i++)
?>

notice there is no '=' before the ++

stolzyboy

and by the way your for loop isn't gonna post the array either you have that wrong, if you can't figure that out either let us know

fac

Thanks for the help.

I had the $i=++ in the original post. Somehow when you quoted it, the "=" sign disappeared. I can't tell if the loop won't work because I haven't gotten that far. I was reading that even though the error message says a certain line it can be farther down. If it is a conditional statememt and the error occurs in later lines, the parser error points to the first line of the conditional.

So uuuh why won't the loop work? (Just in case I get passed this parser error) 🙂

stolzyboy

i rewrote it how is should be done, you had your array set up wrong, and i added a count() to the for loop so you don't have to put a fictitous number like 50 in there: i tested it and it worked:

<?
$player = array ("Paul", "Peter", "Bill", "Van", "Frank", "Dave", "Ken", "Brian"); 
?> 
<form action="" method="post" name="tennis_records" target="_self"> 
<table width="90%" border="0"> 
<tr> 
<td><div align="center">TEAMS</div></td> 
<td><div align="center">SET 1</div></td> 
<td><div align="center">SET 2</div></td> 
<td><div align="center">SET 3</div></td> 
</tr> 
<tr> 
<td><select name="player1"> 
<?
for ($i = 0; $i < count($player); $i++) 
{ 
?>
<option><? echo $player[$i]; ?></option>
<?
} 
?> 
</select> </td> 
<td><select name="score_a"> 
</select> </td> 
<td><select name="score_c"> 
</select> </td> 
<td><select name="score_e"> 
</select> </td> 
</tr> 
<tr> 
<td><select name="player2"> 
</select> </td> 
<td> </td> 
<td> </td> 
<td> </td> 
</tr> 
<tr> 
<td><select name="player3"> 
</select> </td> 
<td><select name="score_b"> 
</select> </td> 
<td><select name="score_d"> 
</select> </td> 
<td><select name="score_f"> 
</select> </td> 
</tr> 
<tr> 
<td><select name="player4"> 
</select> </td> 
<td> </td> 
<td> </td> 
<td> </td> 
</tr> 
</table> 
</form>

fac

Thank you, Stolzyboy for taking the time to help me. I hadn't learned about the count() function yet. It is perfect if you don't know how many items are in your array. I see what you mean about the array, I had placed square brackets after the array variable, although I didn't get a parse error with that I guess it still wouldn't have worked. Also I see you took the html completely out of the php. I was trying to keep it within the php code by using echo but I guess that doesn't work.

Well I'm learning thanks to you.

-Frank