[RESOLVED] Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /home2/www/experttyping/uploader.p

[Pro-eve]

<? php

//where the file is going to be placed
$target_path = "uploads/";

//Add the original filename to our path. Result is
"uploads/file.extension"/
$target_path = $target_path . basename($_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']);

//This is how we will get the temporay file...
$_FILES['uploadedfile']['tmp_name'];

$target_path = "uploads/";

$target_path = $target_path . basename($_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']);

if(move_uploaded_file($FILES['uploadedfile']['tmp_name'], $target_path)) {
echo "The file". basename($FILES['uploadedfile']['name']). "has been uploaded";
} else{
echo "There was an error uploading the file, please try again!";
}

?>

Ok, question 2, BTW thank you for all the help on the last question i had. but now I am geting this, can soem on elook closely to this code am I missing any thing,, open codes or what.. this is get fun now 🙂

[Drakla]

Use the tags, Luke.

PS: can anybody else see that space, or is it just me

[Pro-eve]

<?php <----fix it

//where the file is going to be placed
$target_path = "uploads/";

//Add the original filename to our path. Result is
"uploads/file.extension"/
$target_path = $target_path . basename($_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']);

//This is how we will get the temporay file...
$_FILES['uploadedfile']['tmp_name'];

$target_path = "uploads/";

$target_path = $target_path . basename($_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']);

if(move_uploaded_file($FILES['uploadedfile']['tmp_name'], $target_path)) {
echo "The file". basename($FILES['uploadedfile']['name']). "has been uploaded";
} else{
echo "There was an error uploading the file, please try again!";
}

?>

I do understand that hint are good but come on be a little more decisive for me. i am new. and I did do a DAFT.

[bpat1434]

well, closing the intial space so you have:
<?php
and not
<? php
should make a difference; however, if your php is set up for short-tags, that's probably conflicting.

Here's what I mean:

With short-tags (<? and ?>), PHP will look at the literal string "php" you have and wonder what to do with it. And when it gets to the first variable, it goes huh? and asks why it's seeing a variable with no end of line, or concatenation, thus throwing the error.

With standard tags (<?php and ?>), PHP will not have a problem until it reaches one that I don't see (I see nothing wrong syntactically). So, if you remove the space between the ? and php the script should work.

[Pro-eve]

it did now I have a

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '/' in /home2/www/experttyping/uploader.php on line 7

lol

[bradgrafelman]

//*Add the original filename to our path. Result is
"uploads/file.extension"*/

That comment should either be on one line (single line comments begin with '//') or should be a multi-line comment (which are surrounded with '/' and '/'). It's almost as if the two methods were combined, which won't work.

Simple answer: remove one of the slashes on the '//*' bit.

[Pro-eve]

woot I got it working ty ty ty all for your guys help......

[Drakla]

Pro-eve wrote:

I do understand that hint are good but come on be a little more decisive for me. i am new. and I did do a DAFT.

Aye, I was saying use the tags because then the error of the comment would become clear because of the syntax highlighting. I had to be cagey because I've broken the phpbuilder law today and coded an entire function, free of being annoying.