unexpected T_CASE error

seargentpepper7

I have a proxy script that I am trying to get working on my server but for some reason everytime I try to go to the site it gives me an error that looks like this:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CASE in /home/p33n0r/public_html/index.php on line 27

This is lines 20-30 in index.php:

  </style>
</head>
<body onload="document.getElementById('address_box').focus()">
<div id="container">
  <h1 align="center" class="style1" id="title"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="+4"><u>p33n0r</u></font></h1>
  <?php
        break;
    case 'error':
        echo '<div id="error"><p>';

    switch ($data['group'])

I have hosted this EXACT SAME SCRIPT on a few other php hosting sites and it works (fairly well) and doesn't give me this error. Here is some statistics of the server:
PERL version 5.8.7
PHP version 4.4.3
Apache version 1.3.37 (Unix)
MySQL version 4.1.22-standard

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: I just got help on this from different forums but now a new problem concerning the same script has occured. It is just a little bit different but here it is:

Now the error says:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/p33n0r/public_html/piss/index.php on line 45

Line 40-50:

 break;
case 'external':
switch ($data['error'])
{
case 1:
$message = 'The URL you have tried is black listed';
break;
case 2:
$message = 'You spelled the URL wrong';
break;
}

pete_bisby

T_CASE errors are relating switch statements, and T_STRING errors are, well, relating unexpected strings.

The line number reported in the error isn't necessarily where the error is. What usually happens is that you've missed a single/double quote somewhere higher up the code, which causes the problem lower down.

Have a look through the code and see if you have missed any punctuation. No quick solution, unfortunately, but a little perseverance will get you to the solution!

Weedpacket

pete_bisby wrote:
The line number reported in the error isn't necessarily where the error is. What usually happens is that you've missed a single/double quote somewhere higher up the code, which causes the problem lower down.

This would be picked up if you use syntax highlighting; bits of code would be coloured as literal strings, and vice versa. (This is one reason why this board has [php]..[/code] tags for posting PHP code, and is also one of the reasons for functions like [man]highlight_string[/man].)

Piranha

Really nice function Weedpacket. Didn't know anything like that existed, but now when I know I will be sure to use it 😃