unexpected t_string!?!

djdaz

Hi
I got the script
<?php

$file= "bad.htm";
$handle= @fopen($file, "a");
$uploaddir = 'uploads/';

@fwrite($handle,
"<tr> \n" .
"<td>{$POST['map_name']}</td> \n" .
"<td>{$POST['game_host']}</td> \n" .
"<td> \n" .
"if (empty({$_POST['file']})) {echo "Not Proven";} else {echo "Proven;"}" .
"</td> \n".
"</tr> \n"

);

@fclose($handle);

move_uploaded_file($FILES['file']['tmp_name'], $uploaddir . $FILES['file']['map_name']
;?>

but i get an error when i try to run it of Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /tier-2/pwpstore2/6/generalsworld/htdocs/scripts/php/test/bad/action.php on line 12. (line 12 is the if statement)
wondered what is up with it because i havn't got a clue.
Thanks in advance.
djdaz

mknudsen

You need to escape the "s in that line like this \" .
So it should look like this.

"if (empty({$_POST['file']})) {echo \"Not Proven\";} else {echo \"Proven;\"}" .

The escape char \, tells php to consider the following char a part of the string, and ignore its special meaning.

djdaz

yep, thats worked, now i got a unexpected ";" on line 21

18 @fclose($handle);
19
20 move_uploaded_file($FILES['file']['tmp_name'], $uploaddir . $FILES['file']['map_name']
21 ;?>

i think i missed sommet on line 20

stolzyboy

move your ; up to line 20 after $_FILES['file']['map_name']

djdaz

rightey o, thats fixed and the script works, but its printing my if statement!
"<tr> \n" .
"<td>{$POST['map_name']}</td> \n" .
"<td>{$POST['game_host']}</td> \n" .
"<td> \n" .
"if (empty({$_POST['file']})) {echo \"Not Proven\";} else {echo \"Proven\";}" .
"</td> \n".
"</tr> \n"

stolzyboy

its cuz you are telling it to, its inside the quotes, you can't do if checks inside of quotes, you may want to do the check somewhere else and then put a variable in there or something, cuz you can echo $variables inside of double quotes