Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in 66

elite111

$out = '<input name="mass_action" type="submit" value="'."{"Move"}".'" class="button"> '."{"to"}".': <select name="move_to">';

ClarkF1

Posting in [ php] tags shows it up:

$out = '<input name="mass_action" type="submit" value="'."{"Move"}".'" class="button"> '."{"to"}".': <select name="move_to">';

It doesn't know Move or to

Are they supposed to be in quotation marks? If so you may need to escape them using \

elite111

ohh so where should i put those lines?

ClarkF1

If you want Move and to to be surrounded by quotation marks it would be:

 $out = '<input name="mass_action" type="submit" value="'."{\"Move\"}".'" class="button"> '."{\"to\"}".': <select name="move_to">';

elite111

<a href="index.php?page=edit_photo_upload&id='.$res['id'].'">'."{"Edit"}".'</a> | <a href="index.php?page=view_photo_album&album_id='.$id.'&action=do_delete&pid='.$res['id'].'">'."{"Delete"}".'</a><br>

now line 102 is erroring

ClarkF1

You need to do the same there.........

If you want a " to show you need to make it \"

elite111

ya now 111 wow dont tell me i have to do this on the whole page?

themanwhowas

it is called magicquotes. the idea is that when people insert apostraphies or quotation marks in forms it wont screw your code. you have to do that on every line or use stripslashes($variable); stripslashes stops magicquotes from acting on the variable in the brackets.

bradgrafelman

themanwhowas wrote:
it is called magicquotes.

Uhh... I think you've misunderstood the problem here. magic_quotes is for POST/GET data... what elite111 is dealing with are actual coding errors.

elite111 wrote:
dont tell me i have to do this on the whole page?

Alright, I won't tell you. All I'll tell you is that if you use a double quote as your string delimiter, e.g.

echo "Hello world!";

then any literal double quote that should appear in the output (e.g. your form tags) must be escaped, or prepended with a backslash:

echo "I said, \"Hello world!\"";

Now, if you're using single quotes as your string delimiter, the same rule applies only with single quotes instead:

echo 'Can\'t you hear? I said, "Hello world!"';

Also, just to reiterate what ClarkF1 pointed out earlier: When posting PHP code, please use the board's [PHP][/PHP] bbcode tags - they make the code much, much easier to read (as well as aiding the diagnosis of syntax errors). You should edit your post now and add these bbcode tags to help others in reading/analyzing your code.

EDIT: Lastly, please do not crosspost between different forums. I've removed the duplicate post in the General Help forum as this thread has received more information.