parse error unexpected '&lt;'

parse error unexpected '<'

techsurf

some info from phpinfo()

System Windows NT localhost 5.2 build 3790

Build Date Feb 15 2003 23:02:25

Server API CGI/FastCGI

Virtual Directory Support enabled

Configuration File (php.ini) Path E:\WINDOWS\php.ini

PHP API 20020918

PHP Extension 20020429

Zend Extension 20021010

Debug Build no

Thread Safety enabled

Registered PHP Streams php, http, ftp, compress.zlib

error

PHP Parse error: parse error, unexpected '<' in F:\work\websites\technicalsurfing\thesite\index.php on line 7

question/problem

getting this error for the following php file
what did i do wrong regarding installation/file writing?
please help

html/php code

<html>
<head>
<title>Technical Surfing</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
<table>
<tr>
<td>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
?>
</body>
</html>

REPEAT of code with line numbres

1<html>
2<head>
3<title>Technical Surfing</title>
4</head>
5<body>
6<?php
7<table>
8 <tr>
9 <td>
10 </td>
11 <td>
12 </td>
13 <td>
14 </td>
15 </tr>
16</table>
17?>
18</body>
19</html>

LordShryku

You have to echo or print in php

<?php
echo " 
<table> 
<tr> 
<td> 
</td> 
<td> 
</td> 
<td> 
</td> 
</tr> 
</table>"; 
?>

pjleonhardt

there isnt even any reason for you to have the php tags in there

techsurf

thanks a lot, that's right, the echo was missing.

techsurf

oh one more thing,
my website home page is index.asp and it includes main.htm, top.htm, bottom.htm etc

if i change it to index.php, will it affect my existing submissions in search engines?

pjleonhardt

only if the search engines direct the surfer to http://www.yoursite.com/index.asp

and not http://www.yoursite.com/

if the case is the 2nd one, you dont have a problem, just make sure that you have your default page set to index.php for your webserver...
and if the case is the first one, the solution is simple as well..
just have your index.asp redirect to index.php (sorry for lack of code, I've never touched ASP)