Parsing Error

BBDan

Hello,

I am new to PHP and I receive the following error :

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '\"', expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /home/joedoe/web3.php on line 26

Does anyone know what it means?

Thanks

lanjoky

Can you post ur Code for that page and indicate where line 26 is so that we can better help you? Thanks

BBDan

Hello,

Here is the code.

$query= "INSERT INTO web
(
products,
companyname,
contactperson,
addressone,
addresstwo,
emailaddress,
dayphone,
numservers,
numclients,
numbranches,
businessarea
)

VALUES
(
' $HTTP_POST_VARS["prdt"]',
' $HTTP_POST_VARS["companyName"]',
' $HTTP_POST_VARS["contactPerson"]',
' $HTTP_POST_VARS["addressOne"]',
' $HTTP_POST_VARS["addressTwo"]',
' $HTTP_POST_VARS["emailAddress"]',
' $HTTP_POST_VARS["dayphone"]',
$HTTP_POST_VARS["numServers"],
$HTTP_POST_VARS["numClients"],
$HTTP_POST_VARS["numBranches"],
' $HTTP_POST_VARS["businessArea"]'
)";

$table=new my_table($db_handle, $query);

Please help. Thanks.

BBDan

The error occurs here:

VALUES
(
' $HTTP_POST_VARS["prdt"]',<-

lanjoky

Try

$query= "INSERT INTO web 
( 
products, 
companyname, 
contactperson, 
addressone, 
addresstwo, 
emailaddress, 
dayphone, 
numservers, 
numclients, 
numbranches, 
businessarea 
) 

VALUES 
( 
'".$HTTP_POST_VARS['prdt']."', 
'".$HTTP_POST_VARS['companyName']."',  

'".$HTTP_POST_VARS['contactPerson']."', 
'".$HTTP_POST_VARS['addressOne']."',  

'".$HTTP_POST_VARS['addressTwo']."', 
'".$HTTP_POST_VARS['emailAddress']."', 
'".$HTTP_POST_VARS['dayphone']."', 
'".$HTTP_POST_VARS['numServers']."', 
'".$HTTP_POST_VARS['numClients']."', 
'".$HTTP_POST_VARS['numBranches']."', 
'".$HTTP_POST_VARS['businessArea']."' 
)";

BBDan

Hello Logan,

Thanks, it works, but what's the reason behind it?

Thanks

lanjoky

You were using quotes inside of quotes which started and ended the string where u didnt want to do so.... this way ur basically concatinating the variables as you go.