syntax error, unexpected '<'

[cspgsl]

<span style="color:darkblue;"?Hello :<?=empty($_SESSION['bsd_username'])?" We'd really like to learn your name.  Please login or register" : $_SESSION['username'] . " ( ".$_SESSION['profession'] .")" ?></span>

returns the following error

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in ....etc.

darned if i can see it... too new

[dalecosp]

I'd guess it's here

:<?=empty(

but I'd really like to see more context. You aren't opening a PHP short tag when you're already in PHP, are you?

[cspgsl]

dalecosp wrote:

I'd guess it's herebut I'd really like to see more context. You aren't opening a PHP short tag when you're already in PHP, are you?

That's not it. I remved that earlier but the error persists. Here is the page

<?
<span style="color:darkblue;"?Hello :?=empty($_SESSION['bsd_username'])?" We'd really like to learn your name.  Please login or register" : $_SESSION['bsd_username'] . " ( ".$_SESSION['bsd_profession'] .")" ?></span>

if ($_SESSION['loggedin'] === true):
	//do nothing
elseif (remembereduser()):
	loginremembereduser();
else:
	$form="";
	render_login_form();
endif;

function render_login_form() {
	global $form;
	$attribs = array();
	require_once "HTML/QuickForm.php";
	$form = new HTML_QuickForm('loginform', 'post', $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'],"",NULL,TRUE); 
	$form->addElement("header", "","Login here");
	$form->addElement("hidden","freshtest", getfreshtestid());
$_SESSION['bsd_username'] . " ( ".$_SESSION['bsd_profession'] .")" ?</span>
	$form->addElement("text", "username", "Username:", $attribs);	
	$form->addElement("password", "pwd", "Password:", $attribs);
	$form->addElement("checkbox", "rememberme", "", "Remember me", $attribs);
	$buttons[] = &HTML_QuickForm::createElement("reset", "reset", "Clear"); 
    $buttons[] = &HTML_QuickForm::createElement("submit", "submit", "Login");
    $form->addGroup($buttons, null, null, "&nbsp;"); 
	$form->addElement("link", "","", FULLPATH."?action=forgottenpassword","Forgotten your password?", $attribs);
	$form->addRule("username", "You must supply a username", "required");
	$form->addRule("pwd", "You must supply a password", "required");
	$form->registerRule('freshtest', 'callback', 'isfreshsubmission');
	$form->registerRule('passwordverify', 'callback', 'verifypassword');
	$form->addRule("freshtest", "You cannot use the backbutton to login", "freshtest");
	$form->addRule("pwd", "Either the username or password is incorrect", "passwordverify");		
	if ($form->validate()):
		return $form->process("login");

else:
	$contents = '<div class="loginform">'. $form->tohtml().'</div>';
	require_once "template.php";
	exit;
endif;
}
function login($value=null){
	global $form;
	unset($_SESSION['freshtest']);
	$_SESSION['loggedin'] = true;
	$_SESSION['username'] = $form->exportvalue("username");
	$rm = &$form->getelement("rememberme");
	setrememberme($rm->getchecked()); 
}
function setrememberme($state) {
	global $db, $dbusertable;
	if ($state === true):
		$str =  "setting oookie";
		$expiry = time() + 31536000;
		$dbexpiry = $expiry;
	else:
		$str =  "deleting cookie";
		$expiry = time()  -3600;
		$dbexpiry = null;
	endif;
	$result = $db->query("update $dbusertable set rememberme=? where username=?", array($dbexpiry, $_SESSION['username']));
	setcookie("bsd_username", $_SESSION['username'], $expiry);
}
function remembereduser() {
	global $db, $dbusertable;
	if (!isset($_COOKIE['bsd_username'])) return false;
	$num = $db->getOne("Select count(*) from $dbusertable where username=? and rememberme > ?", array (trim($_COOKIE['bsd_username']), time()));
	return ($num == 1);
}
function loginremembereduser() {
	$_SESSION['loggedin'] = true;
	$_SESSION['username'] = trim($_COOKIE['bsd_username']);
	setrememberme(true);
}	
function verifypassword($value) {

//note cannot use this for crypted passwords, but md5 passwords work ok.

global $form, $db, $dbusertable;
$pwd=trim($value);
$submittedusername = trim($form->exportvalue("username"));
$num = $db->getOne("select count(*) as cnt from $dbusertable where username=? and pwd=?", array($submittedusername, md5($pwd)));
return  ($num == 1);
}
function logout() {
	unset ($_SESSION['username']);
	unset ($_SESSION['loggedin']);
	setrememberme(false);
}

?>

[cspgsl]

I think I see one error. there is a closing ?> tag. I'll play a little here

[dalecosp]

Hmm, lint doesn't find anything at all. Good luck.

[dalecosp]

Of course, you've got HTML up there without a print() or echo() attached. That'll do it any day of the week.

[cspgsl]

dalecosp wrote:

Of course, you've got HTML up there without a print() or echo() attached. That'll do it any day of the week.

expand on that if you would please

[dalecosp]

There is no PHP command "<span", but that's the first line of code you have up there. Look at the syntax highlighting in your full example above.

[Houdini]

Your problems all start right here:

<?//are you supposed to echo the <span style line below?
//if not then leave PHP with a PHP closing tag
<span style="color:darkblue;"?Hello//what is happening here? :?=empty($_SESSION['bsd_username'])?" We'd really like to learn your name.  Please login or register" : $_SESSION['bsd_username'] . " ( ".$_SESSION['bsd_profession'] .")" ?></span> 

You have HTML and PHP all mixed together, then look at all the code below it in post #3 everything is black, do you know why because as far as the rest of it goes it is HTML but not PHP You need to straignten this part out before your code will ever work, or can even begin to debug it and don't use 'short tags <? does not always work but <?php will (provided the code is valid).

Also you are using a PHP 3 endif don't use that either or change it, this is from the manual:

if..endif syntax

The `alternative' way to write if/elseif/else statements, using if(); elseif(); else; endif; cannot be efficiently implemented without adding a large amount of complexity to the 3.0 parser. Because of this, the syntax has been changed:

Example D-5. Migration: old if..endif syntax
if ($foo);
echo "yep\n";
elseif ($bar);
echo "almost\n";
else;
echo "nope\n";
endif;

Example D-6. Migration: new if..endif syntax
if ($foo):
echo "yep\n";
elseif ($bar):
echo "almost\n";
else:
echo "nope\n";
endif;
Notice that the semicolons have been replaced by colons in all statements but the one terminating the expression (endif).

[cspgsl]

thanks everyone, as poited out it was a matter of opening and closing php tags. it worked fine when i did that