I am writing a very lightweight theme system for a set of scripts I am working on. For the most part these scripts will become diagnostic and support scripts for my other projects. Because of this, I do not want to use any database calls or such in them.

In the theme file, aptly named "theme.php", I have the following variables defined as an array:

$ss_theme["doctype"] = "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN\">";
$ss_theme["css"] = "\"\"";
$ss_theme["background"] = "\"#999999\"";
$ss_theme["text"] = "\"#000000\"";
$ss_theme["link"] = "\"#009933\"";
$ss_theme["alink"] = "\"#999933\"";
$ss_theme["vlink"] = "\"#990033\"";
$ss_theme["bgimage"] = "\"\"";
$ss_theme["leftmargin"] = "\"0\"";
$ss_theme["topmargin"] = "\"0\"";
$ss_theme["bgproperties"] = "\"fixed\"";
$ss_theme["t_bordercolor"] = "\"\"";
$ss_theme["t_bordercolorlight"] = "\"\"";
$ss_theme["t_bordercolordark"] = "\"\"";
$ss_theme["t_row1"] = "\"#333333\"";
$ss_theme["t_row2"] = "\"#666666\"";
$ss_theme["t_row3"] = "\"#FFFFFF\"";
$ss_theme["warn"] = "\"#990033\"";
$ss_theme["caution"] = "\"#999933\"";
$ss_theme["okay"] = "\"#009933\"";

Then I have the following HTML shortcuts defined, again as an array:

$ss_page["start"] = $ss_theme["doctype"] ."\n<HTML>\n<HEAD>\n";
$ss_page["reply"] = "<META HTTP-EQUIV=\"Reply-to\" CONTENT=\"" .$ss_script["email"] ."\[".$ss_script["author"]."\]\">\n";
$ss_page["author"] = "<META NAME=\"Author\" CONTENT=\"" .$ss_script_author ."\">\n";
$ss_page["title"] = "<TITLE>" .$ss_info["title"] ." :: " .$ss_script["title"] ."</TITLE>\n";
$ss_page["body"] = "</HEAD>\n<BODY BGCOLOR=".$ss_theme["background"] ." TEXT=".$ss_theme["text"] ." LINK=".$ss_theme["link"] ." ALINK=".$ss_theme["alink"] ." VLINK=".$ss_theme["vlink"] ." BACKGROUND=".$ss_theme["bgimage"] ." LEFTMARGIN=".ss_theme["leftmargin"] ." TOPMARGIN=".ss_theme["topmargin"] ." BGPROPERTIES=".$ss_theme{"bgproperties"] .">\n";
$ss_page["end"] = "</BODY>\n</HTML>\n"

I have gone over the code as much as my eyes will stand at the moment, and I still cannot figure out the mistake that is causing the file to parse incorrectly when it is included into my scripts. This is the line that shows as being in error according to the parser:

$ss_page["body"] = "</HEAD>\n<BODY BGCOLOR=".$ss_theme["background"] ." TEXT=".$ss_theme["text"] ." LINK=".$ss_theme["link"] ." ALINK=".$ss_theme["alink"] ." VLINK=".$ss_theme["vlink"] ." BACKGROUND=".$ss_theme["bgimage"] ." LEFTMARGIN=".ss_theme["leftmargin"] ." TOPMARGIN=".ss_theme["topmargin"] ." BGPROPERTIES=".$ss_theme{"bgproperties"] .">\n";

I have tried so many different variants of it, it is not funny any more. If I leave the line as is, the check routine will show all variables EXCEPT for those that are part of the theme.php file, and gives me a parse error, yet displays the rest of the variables in the script and its included files. I have tried calling the theme.php file via both include_once, and require_once, neither makes a difference. If I comment the line out, everything works fine, it even prints the variables from the theme.php file as it is supposed to do at the moment. Does anyone have any thoughts of what I have done wrong?

All the line is supposed to do, is to generate two basic HTML tags, one per line when out put. Those two tags should end up looking like:

</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#999999" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#009933" ALINK="#999933" VLINK="#990033" BACKGROUND="" LEFTMARGIN="0" TOPMARGIN="0" BGPROPERTIES="fxed">

Quite simple looking, but a pain to code... I would appreciate any help that someone can offer...

    Whats the parse error text etc. Cud be that (since you have so many damn double quotes my eyes are going funny) that the error occurs several lines up?

      Here is the exact error message I am getting:

      Parse error: parse error in C:\apache\htdocs\katana\ss-theme.php on line 47

      I have isolated the error to that specific line by trial and error. With that line commented out, EVERYTHING works fine, other then the output doesn't show up colored as it should be. I have viewed the source of the output page to be sure, and all the meta tags, etc are there, and are in thier place just as they should be.

      Could it be the fact that I did use double quotes? I checked to see that my qoutes were lined up right, both with the color-coding of my PHP editor, as well as the following method:

      $ss_page["body"] = "</HEAD>\n<BODY 
BGCOLOR=".$ss_theme["background"]
." TEXT=".$ss_theme["text"]
." LINK=".$ss_theme["link"] 
." ALINK=".$ss_theme["alink"] 
." VLINK=".$ss_theme["vlink"] 
." BACKGROUND=".$ss_theme["bgimage"] 
." LEFTMARGIN=".ss_theme["leftmargin"] 
." TOPMARGIN=".ss_theme["topmargin"] 
." BGPROPERTIES=".$ss_theme{"bgproperties"]
.">\n";

      As you can see when I format it like that, all qoutes have a mate where they are supposed to have one...

        no, your problem is even simpler than that. Look at your bgproperties line:

        ." BGPROPERTIES=".$ss_theme{"bgproperties"]

        You're using a brace ({) where you shoud be using a bracket ([)

          ." LEFTMARGIN=".ss_theme["leftmargin"] 
." TOPMARGIN=".ss_theme["topmargin"]

          You also seem to have left out some $ symbols here

            Thank you; JPMoriarty, and BobTheDog... That line had me going insane...

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