Need help with a parse error

jgryder76

Hello,

Can you help me with a parse error.

Here is the coding where the error is.
echo ?></td><td align=center><img src=/img/arrow.gif border=0 width=25 height=14 alt=\"Stats\"></a></td></tr></table>&nbsp<?php

Here is the error message:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected '<' in /home/adollar/public_html/members/index.php on line 247

IWeb

it should look something like

echo("</td><td align=center><img src=/img/arrow.gif border=0 width=25 height=14 alt=\"Stats\"></a></td></tr></table>&nbsp");

Aybabtu

The problem is the <? and <?php, just change it to look like

<?
 echo "</td><td align=center><img src=/img/arrow.gif border='0' width='25' height=14 alt='Stats'></a></td></tr></table>&nbsp";

 ?>

The <? code starts a section of php code and the ?> ends the section. Also I noticed that you did not have the ; symbol after your echo statement. The ends a php command so you would have gotten a parse error with that as well.

Aybabtu.

laserlight

Also I noticed that you did not have the ; symbol after your echo statement. The ends a php command so you would have gotten a parse error with that as well.

'?>' also terminates a statement, so technically one does not need a terminating semi-colon just before it though I usually use one anyway, and it seems like good practice to do so.

Incidentally, '<?php' should be used instead of '<?' in view of possible problems when using XML, and also because the '<?php' version is guaranteed to exist.

Aybabtu

Never thought of problems with XML, guess it is because I dont code with it yet, but that was nice info. using the semi-colon after each statement is very good practice, I dont know to many one line only php pages.

Aybabtu.