[RESOLVED] Parse error

ggp

Hi.
I am getting this error:

Parse error: parse error in C:\Program Files\Online Services\Apache2\htdocs\searchexample15.php on line 27

Line 27:
include 'search.php';

Thanks for any help to fix this problem.

[code=php]
<?php

if (!isset($_POST['submit']) or trim($_POST['searchstring']) === '' ) 
{
  if(trim($_POST['searchstring'] === '')) 
   { 
      include 'error.php';

   } 

   ?>
   <form >
   </form>
   <?php
}

else
{
include 'search.php';

}

?>
   <form >  

   </form>
   <?php
}
}
?>

[/code]

NogDog

Is there any PHP code preceding the sample you provided? (I'm assuming so, since there are more "}" than there are "{".) Anyway, I don't get a parse error when I run your code (after commenting out the last two "}" lines), thus my suspicion that the problem originates earlier on in the code. Or, it could conceivably be something in the the error.php include file or any other files included earlier in the code.

ggp

There is not more php code before.

If I add the code from search.php insted of include search.php . it works fine.

I think is because whe it goes to find the search.php, it does not come back to finish the cicle. But I am not sure.

Thanks.

scrupul0us

include('search.php');

that should do it

Installer

Because include() is a special language construct, parentheses are not needed around its argument.

ggp - Is that all there is to the error message? No "unexpected..." or anything else?

Try the function posted by "gillis dot php" in the user notes for include(). (Although it seems to me that if the error were in the included file the error message would point to that file.)

scrupul0us

gotcha.. i agree, all i see is two extra brackets

i would use || instead of 'or'

also isnt the nested If a redundant check? just check one state, then use an elseif to check the other.. no sense in writing the same code twice

Weedpacket

scrupul0us wrote:
gotcha.. i agree, all i see is two extra brackets

Likewise; if the idea is that search.php has the brackets these ones pair up with (as suggested by

ggp wrote:
If I add the code from search.php insted of include search.php . it works fine.

then that won't work, because PHP needs to parse the file before it can run any of it (including loading includes) and if the brackets don't match then the file won't parse.