unexpected T_STRING

jackbauer

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in <<site>> episodes.html on line 77

this is line 76 and 77

print "<a href='episodes.html?s=01' title='Season 1'>Season 1 (2001/2002)</a> 
Earth's greatest Superhero arrives. 2001 and Clark Kent is slowly developing his new abilities. Attending Smallville High, battling against "meteor freaks" and trying to conceal his secret from his friends, this more than average farmboy slowly begins working his way towards fulfilling his destiny.</a>";

Any ideas?

Thanks

Sangre

yeah i have 🙂

every ' and " that is not part of the PHP code, like in "meteor freaks" has to be escaped.

you do this by putting a \ in front of it.

like \"meteor freaks\"

otherwise PHP thinks the string ends after the 'against' and starts again after the freaks.

it gives an error because metoer freaks is not a legal PHP command.

Im a newbie myself so im not totaly sure if the ' has to be escaped to, but it cant harm doing so.

jackbauer

Cheers - thats solved it :-D

How about::

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_CLASS in <<site>> episodes.html on line 90

This is line 90 and 91:

print "<a href='listings.php?s=03' title='Season 3'>Season 3 (2003/2004)</a> 
Clark embraces his dark side, Jonathan makes a deal with the devil, Perry White comes to Smallville, Clark learns a new power, Pete is overwhelmed by Clark's secret, Lex becomes obsessed and Lana and Clark draw further apart. Smallville is like a staircase. It just keeps going up!";

Sangre

did you miss a ';' at the end of line 89?

jackbauer

Wow you're a good newbie. I didn't even notice - but wasn't my mistake either so hehe (I had a friend go over the code to try and sort it out - he did that haha)

http://loisandclark.co.uk/main/episodes.html

First time that page has worked all day lol.

Thanks so much!

Houdini

Just use this

print "<span class='t4'><a href='episodes.html?s=01' title='Season 1'>Season 1 (2001/2002)</a></span><br>
Earth's greatest Superhero arrives. 2001 and Clark Kent is slowly developing his new abilities. Attending Smallville High, battling against \"meteor freaks\" and trying to conceal his secret from his friends, this more than average farmboy slowly begins working his way towards fulfilling his destiny.</a>";

instead of this

print "<span class='t4'><a href='listings.php?s=03' title='Season 3'>Season 3 (2003/2004)</a></span><br>
Clark embraces his dark side, Jonathan makes a deal with the devil, Perry White comes to Smallville, Clark learns a new power, Pete is overwhelmed by Clark's secret, Lex becomes obsessed and Lana and Clark draw further apart. Smallville is like a staircase. It just keeps going up!";

You started your PHP with double quotes so double quotes around meteor freaks must be excaped or PHP will think the end of the print statement has arrived and will get confused.