foreach doesn't work. help. short code

dragonfire

here is my code:
<?php
$flavor[] = "blue raspberry";
$flavor[] = "root beer";
$flavor[] = "pineapple";
echo "My favorite flavors are:<br>";
foreach ($flavor, as $value){
echo $value "<br>\n";
}
?>
error message:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected ',' in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\test\sorting.php on line 6

if I change "foreach ($flavor, as $value)" to "foreach ($flavor as $value)"
I got this message:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\test\sorting.php on line 7

I learning from a book and my code is exactly what is printed in the book, but somehow I keep getting this error. What am I doing wrong here.

bubblenut

Read the error

Parse error: parse error, unexpected ',' in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\test\sorting.php on line 6

Remove the comma and see what happens.
NB
Your first port of call should be php.net, if you'd checked the [man]foreach()[/man] page you'd have seen where the syntax error was pretty quickly I'm sure 🙂

dragonfire

Originally posted by bubblenut
Read the error
Parse error: parse error, unexpected ',' in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\test\sorting.php on line 6 
Remove the comma and see what happens.
NB
Your first port of call should be php.net, if you'd checked the [man]foreach()[/man] page you'd have seen where the syntax error was pretty quickly I'm sure 🙂 [/B]

I did remove the comma and it did not work too, like I said on my first post.

I change "foreach ($flavor, as $value)" to "foreach ($flavor as $value)"
and I got this message:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\test\sorting.php on line 7

bubblenut

I'm very sorry, my mistake (I need to start reading the questions 😉).
The problem's on this line

 echo $value "<br>\n";

You must concatenate variables and strings together with a dot (or in the case of simple variables and double quotes simply place the variable inside the quote)
Here are two possible sollutions

//concatenating the variable and the string with a dot
echo $value."<br />\n";
//placing the variable within the double quotes
echo "$value<br />\n";

You can find out more about working wth string here

HTH
Bubble

Sgarissta

<?php
$flavor[] = "blue raspberry";
$flavor[] = "root beer";
$flavor[] = "pineapple";
echo "My favorite flavors are:<br>";
foreach ($flavor, as $value){
	echo $value."<br>\n";  //added a period between $value and "<br>\n";
}
?>

dragonfire

Thanks Sgarissta and bubblenut. It fix my problem. I just can't believe the book have two syntax mistakes there.