[RESOLVED] scripts won't parse (machine singularity)

[ClaytonBellmor]

Hi!

I've been following some PHP tutorials online and when I copy/paste certain examples from the tutorial to my server, I get errors.

I doubled checked the code from the tutorial.
I used two different servers.
I manually set the upload mode to ASCII using two different FTP programs.
I used two different code editing applications.
I made sure I was saving the files as UTF-8.
I used Safari and Firefox browsers.
I made a sacrifice.

Nothing changed, I still got errors.

Someone on these forums then uploaded the same files to their server and everything compiled correctly, no errors.

So I'm completely lost as to what could be going wrong. My only guess at this point is maybe php is installed/set incorrectly. It's a wildcard, because I used two servers. But hey.

Any help would be great. I was making so much progress and then I tried uploading an example of if-elseif-else.

Here is my original post with the html/php code

Clayton

[NogDog]

What editor are you using?

[ClaytonBellmor]

I posted to the sticky "Parse Error", it seemed like that's where I was supposed to post.

I'm using Textwrangler, and I gave Textmate a try just to check the saving.

[ClaytonBellmor]

Turns out I just had to clean up the blank spaces throughout the script. Someone told me that whenever they copy/paste from a website they have to go through cleaning up the script or else... the errors. Crazy annoying but oh well.