[RESOLVED] sytax error T_STRING

hyperyoga

I have a form inside php and I'm getting this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in C:\wamp\www\index.php on line 716

lines 709 to 716..all 716 is }...i want to keep the onmouseover. Is there a way for me to keep it.

709		Comment:
710		<div>
711		<textarea cols="25" rows="6" name="text_1"></textarea>
712		</div>
713		<br />
714		<input type="submit" value="SUBMIT" class="button" onmouseover="this.className='button2';" onmouseout="this.className='button';" />
715		';
716	}

notaloser

okay i am guessing that the lines 709-714 are inside an echo.. and that 715 is the end of the echo..

here is my suggestion..

// close your php tags before the form you want to display and reopen them before your closing }

//closed php, writing in regular html only now   

?>
Comment:
<div>
<textarea cols="25" rows="6" name="text_1"></textarea>
</div>
<br />
<input type="submit" value="SUBMIT" class="button" onmouseover="this.className='button2';" onmouseout="this.className='button';" />

<?php   //back in php, close }

}

//end php once more
?>

hyperyoga

notaloser wrote:

okay i am guessing that the lines 709-714 are inside an echo.. and that 715 is the end of the echo..

here is my suggestion..

// close your php tags before the form you want to display and reopen them before your closing }

//closed php, writing in regular html only now   

?>
Comment:
<div>
<textarea cols="25" rows="6" name="text_1"></textarea>
</div>
<br />
<input type="submit" value="SUBMIT" class="button" onmouseover="this.className='button2';" onmouseout="this.className='button';" />

<?php   //back in php, close }

}

//end php once more
?>

It's in an else statement.

bradgrafelman

If you use any form of syntax highlighting (doesn't your editor do it automatically? if not, get a new editor!) you'll see issues around here:

onmouseover="this.className='button2';"

Why? Because you have unescaped quotes in there. You need to prepend all of the single quotes (double quotes if you had been using them as your string delimeter, but since you didn't...) with a backslash to "escape" them; otherwise PHP thinks you're ending the string and it just goes haywire.

notaloser

hyperyoga wrote:
It's in an else statement.

im sorry, but you have raw html written inside of an else statement INSIDE of php tags?

bradgrafelman

I do believe it's inside of an echo call, because you can see the closing '; on line 715.

notaloser

hah thats what i presumed and stated above.. but his response partially confused that assumption

bradgrafelman

Yeah... either method is fine, just have to be careful either way.

Personally, I think it's a good idea to separate HTML from PHP... otherwise it just starts getting messy (like here).

hyperyoga

Thanks for the help..forgot about the escape.