Code error

[sfomra]

am a newbie n tried makin a prog the code is below...CAn ne one tell me wat the error in coding is??

<php>
printgreeting();

function printgreeting(){
global $guess, $nopetals;
if (empty($guess)){
print"<h2>Welcome to Petals Game</h2>";
} else if($guess==$nopetals){
print"<h2>You Got it Rite</h2>";}
else{
print<<<HERE
Sorry wrong guess,<br>
your guess was $guess <br>
but no. of petals is $nopetals.<br>
HERE;}

}

<php>
i keep gettin this error
Parse error: parse error in c:\apache\htdocs\my petals\test.php on line..

[Roger_Ramjet]

Originally posted by sfomra
am a newbie n tried makin a prog the code is below...CAn ne one tell me wat the error in coding is??

<php>
printgreeting();

function printgreeting(){
global $guess, $nopetals;
if (empty($guess)){
print"<h2>Welcome to Petals Game</h2>";
} elseif($guess==$nopetals){
print"<h2>You Got it Rite</h2>";}
else{
print<<<HERE
Sorry wrong guess,<br>
your guess was $guess <br>
but no. of petals is $nopetals.<br>
HERE;}

}

<php>
i keep gettin this error
Parse error: parse error in c:\apache\htdocs\my petals\test.php on line..

Notice that I changed it from ELSE IF to ELSEIF. As it is with your code you have 2 ELSE clauses for the 1 IF, which at the least means that the last ELSE cluase will never execute.

[tsinka]

Hi,

the else if is valid in this case.
I think the problem is with the heredoc syntax.

printgreeting(); 

function printgreeting(){ 
  global $guess, $nopetals; 
  if (empty($guess)) { 
    print"<h2>Welcome to Petals Game</h2>"; 
  } else if ($guess==$nopetals) { 
    print"<h2>You Got it Rite</h2>";
  } else { 
print <<<HERE 
Sorry wrong guess,<br> 
your guess was $guess <br> 
but no. of petals is $nopetals.<br> 
HERE;
  } 
} 

Additionally, there mustn't be any whitespaces at the end of the lines print <<<HERE and HERE;
You'll get an error message otherwise.

Generally: no empty whitespaces and the closing tag (HERE; in this case) must be at the very beginning of a line and there mustn't be any other characters at the end of the line (like the } in your case).

Thomas