parse error with echo statement

phpsj06

hello everyone:

I wrote this simple echo statement with in php code blcok. I got this parse erroe message in FireFox
browser.

Message says, "Parse error: parse error, unexpected ',' in C:\Program Files\ApacheGroup\Apache2\htdocs\exer\php_echo_statement.php on line 17"

I am not sure if this is syntax error, or it's due to coinfiguration of my php.ini file. Please help me trouble shoot the issue. Thanks!

I installed Apache 2.0.59,
PHP5.1.6 and MySQL 5.024a

My code are as follows:

 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3. org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>
  <title>php script block</title>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
</head>

<body>


 <!-- demo pass multiple argument to echo statement -->
 <?php
 line 17 -->echo ("Explore Africa,",  " North America ", " and Australia!";);
 ?>
</body>
</html>

NogDog

From www.php.net/echo :

echo() is not actually a function (it is a language construct), so you are not required to use parentheses with it. echo() (unlike some other language constructs) does not behave like a function, so it cannot always be used in the context of a function. Additionally, if you want to pass more than one parameter to echo(), the parameters must not be enclosed within parentheses.

Also, once you fix that, you'll need to deal with the superfluous semi-colon at the end, too.