Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_VARIABLE

[Mr_Chew]

I'm having a parse error problem for some reason in my coding on line 23 (where the $connection variable is). It says something about an unexpected t variable... i don't know if that means take away the dollar sign under the pw part of the connection which i tried or something else... i made sure my connection settings are corrected and match up with the database name/pw:

<?PHP
$user=$_REQUEST['username'];
$pass=$_REQUEST['pass'];

$user=strip_tags($user);
$pass=strip_tags($pass);

$user=str_replace(" ","",$user);
$pass=str_replace(" ","",$pass);
$user=str_replace("%20", "",$user);
$pass=str_replace("%20", "",$pass);

$user=addslashes($user);
$pass=addslashes($pass);

$min_length=7;

if(strlen($user) < $min_len || strlen($pass) < $min_len)
{
	die("Your username and/or password must have a minimum of 7 characters.")


$connection=mysql_connect("localhost", "blank", "$blank");
$mysql_select_db("blank")
$pass=md5($pass);
$request="INSERT INTO login values(0, '".$user.",'".$pass."')";
$results=mysql_query($request), $connection);

if($results)
{ echo "Your account has successfully been created";
}
else
{
	echo "There was an error creating your account. Please retry or contact the webmaster at [e-mail]";
}
?>

[vaaaska]

It probably means that should be this...

if(strlen($user) < $min_len || strlen($pass) < $min_len) 
{ 
    die("Your username and/or password must have a minimum of 7 characters.");
}

Or...err...something like that...

[Mr_Chew]

i don't think you're correct. I tried that and it said:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '}'

Can someone please help me here...

[vaaaska]

There's something else going on here...I don't know...the solution looks prettly clear to me...

if ((strlen($user) < $min_len) || (strlen($pass) < $min_len)) { 
    die('Your username and/or password must have a minimum of 7 characters.');
}

If you are simply cutting and pasting this it's possible you are getting hidden characters like _ that are mucking things up...they exist where blank spaces lie sometimes...

[Mr_Chew]

I didn't copy and paste i typed it out myself...what was that extra parentheses you put in for right after the if?

Can someone help here? I'm struggling

[vaaaska]

Because, your if statement is open (and logically doesn't make sense as you kill a the script just before your query).

Is there more code on this page...as you have it shown to use you are one { short. Something is not right here.

[Mr_Chew]

how does the if statement logically not make sense? I have it there to check whether or not the users input is less than or greater than $min_length before the connection/query. Can someone please help me, I've been stuck here for a while now.......

[Weedpacket]

Did anyone else notice the missing semicolon vaaaska put back on the end of the die statement? So that's two mistakes he corrected.

[Mr_Chew]

what is that.............

I'm so confused.. all i want to know is what the damn error is on line 23 it's giving me, where it says $connection....

Someone please help.

[Weedpacket]

How many die statements have you got?

[lights_out]

$connection = mysql_connect("localhost", "blank", "$blank");
$mysql_select_db("blank")

that 2nd line there looks a little shaky to me.

do something like this:

$connection = mysql_connect("localhost", "blank", "$blank");
$db_select = mysql_select_db("blank",$connection);

i've never used that function, but i looked :here:

EDIT::: oh oh, also where $blank is, if $blank has quotes around it, i think that may be your problem. if there are quotes in $blank, either take the quotes out of mysql_connect or remove the quotes from $blank.

so.. like if blank is something like this

$blank = "mydatabase";

either do this in your code:

$connection = mysql_connect("localhost", "blank", $blank);
$db_select = mysql_select_db("blank",$connection);

or remove the quotes in $blank and use:

$connection = mysql_connect("localhost", "blank", "$blank");
$db_select = mysql_select_db("blank",$connection);

[Mr_Chew]

I fixed that but that's not even the error. I AM SPECIFIALLY GETTING AN ERROR ON THIS LINE:

$connection=mysql_connect("localhost", "user", "password");

ERROR MESSAGE: "UNEXPECTED T_VARIABLE"

WHAT IS GOING ON HERE.......................................

[jansky]

here kindly test this one now

<?PHP
$user=$_REQUEST['username'];
$pass=$_REQUEST['pass'];

$user=strip_tags($user);
$pass=strip_tags($pass);

$user=str_replace(" ","",$user);
$pass=str_replace(" ","",$pass);
$user=str_replace("%20", "",$user);
$pass=str_replace("%20", "",$pass);

$user=addslashes($user);
$pass=addslashes($pass);

$min_length=7;

if ((strlen($user) < $min_len) || (strlen($pass) < $min_len))

die("Your username and/or password must have a minimum of 7 characters.");

$dbaseuser="yourusername";
$dbasepassword="yourpassword";
$dbasename="yourdatabase";
$connection=mysql_connect("localhost", $dbaseuser, $dbasepassword);
$mysql_select_db($dbasename);
$pass=md5($pass);
$request="INSERT INTO login values(0, '".$user.",'".$pass."')";
$results=mysql_query($request), $connection);

if($results)
 echo "Your account has successfully been created";

else

echo "There was an error creating your account. Please retry or contact the webmaster at [e-mail]";

?> 

[vaaaska]

I was simply fixing the error where you said it existed...but there's alot wrong here. You really need to read up on debugging...and you should consider reading Hudzilla.org's php book. Follow the links in my sig for alot of information.

Not sure if this will really work...there were quite a few things wrong with this code...keep trying and posting which line the problem is at..and we'll go through it piece by piece...it's also the best way to learn...I don't really feel like doing any more...

However, I've already solved the problem at line whatever...and I believe there is more code on this page you haven't revealed...so helping you out is really not so easy.

<?PHP 
$user = $_REQUEST['username']; 
$pass = $_REQUEST['pass']; 

$user = strip_tags($user); 
$pass = strip_tags($pass); 

$user = str_replace(" ","",$user); 
$pass = str_replace(" ","",$pass); 
$user = str_replace("%20", "",$user); 
$pass = str_replace("%20", "",$pass); 

$user = addslashes($user); 
$pass = addslashes($pass); 

$min_length = 7; 


if ((strlen($user) < $min_len) || (strlen($pass) < $min_len)) {

// you can't kill it before you query, this is why we have an ending '}'
// if you get an error, it means you have more code you aren't showing
echo 'Your username and/or password must have a minimum of 7 characters.';
exit;
}


// what is $blank about on the following line?
$connection = mysql_connect("localhost","blank",$blank); 
$db_select = mysql_select_db("blank",$connection);

// you'll need to put your column names in here - (id,user,pass) 
$request = "INSERT INTO login 
(id,user,pass) 
VALUES
(0, '".$user.",'".md5($pass)."')";

$results = mysql_query($request,$connection); 

if ($results) { 

echo 'Your account has successfully been created'; 

} else  { 

echo 'There was an error creating your account. Please retry or contact the webmaster at [e-mail]';

} 
?>

[kburger]

Mr Chew wrote:

I AM SPECIFIALLY GETTING AN ERROR ON THIS LINE:

$connection=mysql_connect("localhost", "user", "password");

ERROR MESSAGE: "UNEXPECTED T_VARIABLE"

Don't be mislead into thinking the error is ON that line. That's just where PHP noticed that something was wrong. Usually that means that the actual error is BEFORE that line.

[vaaaska]

kburger wrote:

Don't be mislead into thinking the error is ON that line. That's just where PHP noticed that something was wrong. Usually that means that the actual error is BEFORE that line.

Yes, the line I've fixed, or told this poster to fix a few times now...and other people have pointed it out as well. And there is much more wrong here...

[Mr_Chew]

I figured it out-thanks a lot everyone who helped me along the way, deeply appreciated.

[madwormer2]

Mark resolved 😉