parse error?

smeagol

I am getting this error from my script when hitting the "submit" button,on my form.

"Parse error: parse error in /home/loansms/public_html/virtualmail.php on line 2"

If it cant be answered from just this message line, let me know, I will display the script.

Im a newbie when it comes to scripts,html,and php.

Thanks for any help........

paulnaj

Yes, we'll have to see some of the code.

smeagol

A snippit of the form:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Form:Inquiry</title>

<script src="gen_validatorv3.js" language="JavaScript"></script>
</head>
<body>
<form name="Inquiry" action="virtualmail.php" method="POST"><input
type="hidden" name="recipient" value="mortgagecheck2000@yahoo.com">
<table cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="683">
<caption align="bottom"><br>

<br>
  <a href="index.htm">Home</a>
</caption> <tbody>
  <tr>
    <td style="background-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border: 1 groove #808080; padding-top: 5; padding-bottom: 5" width="402"> <font

face="Arial" size="2"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">All Fields
Required</span>        

                       
Type of Loan Desired</font> </td>
<td style="background-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border: 1 groove #808080; padding-top: 5; padding-bottom: 5" width="263"> <font
face="Arial">

A snippit of the script "virtualmail.php:

<?php
<form ACTION="virtualmail.php" METHOD=POST>
<input type=hidden name="recipient" value="mortgagecheck2000@yahoo.com">
<input type="hidden"name="redirect"value="http://loans.msshost.com">
// formmail version (for debugging mostly)
$version = "1.6";

$allowed_email_recipients_array = array('yahoo.com','mortgagecheck2000@yahoo.com');

THIS IS REQUIRED FOR THE SCRIPT TO RUN. YOU MUST FILL IT IN WITH YOUR

DOMAIN NAME. THIS IS TO CORRECT THE SPAM GATEWAY EXPLOIT IN v1.6.

THE VALUES CAN BE FULL EMAIL ADDRESSES OR JUST DOMAIN NAMES.

// referers.. domains/ips that you will allow forms to
// reside on.
$referers = array('loans.msshost.com','yahoo.com');

// banned emails, these will be email addresses of people
// who are blocked from using the script (requested)
$banlist = array ('*@somedomain.com', 'user@domain.com', 'etc@domains.com');

// our mighty error function..
function print_error($reason,$type = 0) {
global $version;
build_body($title, $bgcolor, $text_color, $link_color, $vlink_color, $alink_color, $style_sheet);
// for missing required data
if ($type == "missing") {

paulnaj

A snippit of the script "virtualmail.php:

<?php
<form ACTION="virtualmail.php" METHOD=POST>
<input type=hidden name="recipient" value="mortgagecheck2000@yahoo.com">
<input type="hidden"name="redirect"value="http://loans.msshost.com">
// formmail version (for debugging mostly)
$version = "1.6";

$allowed_email_recipients_array = array('yahoo.com','mortgagecheck2000@yahoo.com');

THIS IS REQUIRED FOR THE SCRIPT TO RUN. YOU MUST FILL IT IN WITH YOUR

DOMAIN NAME. THIS IS TO CORRECT THE SPAM GATEWAY EXPLOIT IN v1.6.

THE VALUES CAN BE FULL EMAIL ADDRESSES OR JUST DOMAIN NAMES.

// referers.. domains/ips that you will allow forms to
// reside on.
$referers = array('loans.msshost.com','yahoo.com');

A couple of things to look out for:
1) You have some HTML inside the <?php ?> tags ...

<?php
<form ACTION="virtualmail.php" METHOD=POST>
<input type=hidden name="recipient" value="mortgagecheck2000@yahoo.com">
<input type="hidden"name="redirect"value="http://loans.msshost.com">

Also, further down ther are the lines beginning with # ... comments start with //, # is for perl!!

Maybe that's all ... see how you get on.