Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_SL (help needed)

[kappadonna]

i have ecountered this error on the following program (higlighted in red), can someone please help

<?php

$link = mysql_connect("localhost","root","psswrd") or
die (mysql_error());

mysql_select_db ("moviedbase");

$query = "SELECT
movie_name,
movie_director,
movie_leadactor
FROM
movie";

$result = mysql_query($query,$link) or die(mysql_error());
$num_movies = mysql_num_rows($result);

$movie_header=<<<EOD

<h2><center>Movie Review Database</center></h2>
<table width='70%' border='1' cellpadding='2' cellspacing='2' align='center'>
<tr>
<th align='left'>Movie Director</th>
<th align='left'>Movie Lead Actor</th>
<th align='left'>Movie Type</th>
</tr>

EOD;

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
$movie_name = $row['movie_name'];
$movie_director = $row['movie_director'];
$movie_leadactor = $row['movie_leadactor'];

$movie_details .=<<<EOD
<tr>
	<td>$movie_name</td>
	<td>$movie_director</td>
	<td>$movie_leadactor</td>
</tr>

EOD;

}
$movie_details.=<<<EOD
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Total :$num_movies Movies</td>
</tr>
EOD;
?>

its supposedly the coding highlighted in red where the problem is encountered. Can someone help me out here

thanks

[halojoy]

hi

you can NOT have a space AFTER <<<EOD
in
$movie_details.=<<<EOD <--------delete this space
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>

[kappadonna]

hi,

thanks, sorry that was a mistake. i have elimnated the space and the error still pops up. It says the error is on line 54 which i have now higlighted in green i just cannot see where line 54 causes a problem

[kappadonna]

hi

thanks i did not notice that space at all after pressing return for a new line.

Thanks a lot for your help.

[halojoy]

lets put some color
to your code, using 'php code forum tags'

<?php

$link = mysql_connect("localhost","root","psswrd") or
die (mysql_error());

mysql_select_db ("moviedbase");

$query = "SELECT
movie_name,
movie_director,
movie_leadactor
FROM
movie";

$result = mysql_query($query,$link) or die(mysql_error());
$num_movies = mysql_num_rows($result);

$movie_header=<<<EOD

<h2><center>Movie Review Database</center></h2>
<table width='70%' border='1' cellpadding='2' cellspacing='2' align='center'>
<tr>
<th align='left'>Movie Director</th>
<th align='left'>Movie Lead Actor</th>
<th align='left'>Movie Type</th>
</tr>

EOD;

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
$movie_name = $row['movie_name'];
$movie_director = $row['movie_director'];
$movie_leadactor = $row['movie_leadactor'];

$movie_details .=<<<EOD
<tr>
<td>$movie_name</td>
<td>$movie_director</td>
<td>$movie_leadactor</td>
</tr>
EOD;

}
$movie_details.=<<<EOD
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Total :$num_movies Movies</td>
</tr>
EOD;
?>

[halojoy]

I think you CANT use same
<<<EOD
in different places in same page

to find more info about this, search internet for: 'heredoc'

Use unique like:

<<<EOD1

EOD1;

<<<EOD2

EOD2;

<<<EOD3

EOD3;

[Feanor]

[LEFT] A problem with the same script occurred to me. There are no syntax errors but when I open the file with my browser the values in the table cells are not the values of the variables $movie_name, $movie_leadactor and movie_director but their names accepted by the server as a string. I am using a beginners book about Apache/MySQL and PhP and I believe there are some updates in the language syntax because it is kind of old(last year). Anyway I don't know who should I turn to so I am posting this message. Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
[/LEFT]

<?php 
mysql_select_db("moviesite")
or die(mysql_error());


$query=mysql_query("SELECT movie_name, movie_director, movie_leadactor FROM movie")
or die(mysql_error());

$num_movies=mysql_num_rows($query);

$movie_header= <<<'EOD'
<h1> <center> Movie Review Database </center> </h1>
 <table width="70%" border="1" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center">
  <tr>
    <th >Movie Title</th>
    <th >Year of Release</th>
    <th >Movie Director</th>
    <th >Movie Lead Actor</th>
    <th >Movie Type</th>
  </tr>
EOD;

$movie_details='';
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($query))
{
 $movie_name=$row['movie_name'];
 $movie_director=$row['movie_director'];
 $movie_leadactor=$row['movie_leadactor'];

$movie_details .= <<<'EOD'
<tr> 
<td> $movie_name </td>
<td>$movie_director </td>
<td>$movie_leadactor </td>
</tr>
EOD;
}
$movie_details .=<<<'EOD'
<tr>
<td>$nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Total: $num_movies Movies </td>
</tr>
EOD;

$movie_footer="</table>";


echo "There are $num_movies movies in our database";
echo "<br/>";
echo $movie_header;
echo $movie_details;
echo $movie_footer;
?>