[Resolved] stupid errors

[filn]

i keep getting this error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in ...../registration/confirm.php on line 306

line 306 is the very last line of the code. ive been through it over and over and i cant find any unexpected $'s.

what should i be looking for?

[bradgrafelman]

Can you paste the last.. 5-10 lines of your code for us?

It may be that it's somewhere else, in which case it would help if you could attach your script to your post. Let's try the last 5-10 lines first.

[filn]

$msgbody =
"
Username:		$username
Password:		$password
First name:             $first_name
Last name:              $last_name
Home address:           $home_address
City:                   $city
State:                  $state
Zip:                    $zip
Primary phone:          $home_phone
PayPal Email:           $email
"; 


print "
<table width=$table_width border=0>
<tr><td>

<form action=\"complete.php\" method=\"post\">
<input name=\"msgbody\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"$msgbody\">
<input name=\"email\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"$email\">
<input name=\"first_name\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"$first_name\">
<input name=\"last_name\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"$last_name\">
<center><input type=\"submit\" name=\"Submit\" value=\"Confirm\">
    </center>
</form>
</td></tr>
</table>
";

[cahva]

That error comes usually when you havent closed some if,else or some other statement. Check those.

[bradgrafelman]

Yep. I was hoping there'd be something at the end to make it simple :p

Guess not. Now would be the time you put the script in a .zip or .txt format and attach it to a post, filn. 🙂

EDIT: Prior to doing so, however, you should read over your if-else statements to see if you perhaps forgot an ending brace or whatnot.

In some editors, if you click on a brace it will highligh it's mate (i.e. click on '}' and it shows you the matching '{'. Notepad2, a handy replacement for Notepad, does this.)

If not, I have a simple trick. For every '{' I raise one finger, and for every '}' I take away one finger. So, if you have:

if(something == something) {
if(nothing != something) {

you would have 2 fingers raised. This is rather time-consuming and looks odd if you're sitting there going back and forth, raising/lowering fingers :p It's best to get a nice editor that highlights matching braces for you. If you run out of fingers/don't end with exactly no fingers raised, you have an unpaired brace! Not good!

[filn]

yeah i eventually found a missing }. took awhile, but once i found it that fixed the problem. thanks all!