Can someone please help me??

sudip_dg77

Hello,

Following is my php code and I call it on a button click:

<?php

$val_code=$_POST['val_code'];

$myDatabase = "business";

$con = mysql_connect("localhost:3306","admin","admin");

if (!$con)

{

die('Could not connect to Database: ' . mysql_error());

}

@mysql_select_db($myDatabase, $con) or die("Unable to select database");

$result_code = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM user WHERE rand_no = '$val_code'");

If (mysql_fetch_array($result_code))

{
echo "Congratulations!!You are now a registered member of Dozentips Home Business!!"";

echo "<a href="http://www.google.com">To continue please click here..</a>";
}

else

{
echo "The code you entered is not valid, please click the back button on your browser and retry!!";

}

mysql_close($con);

But I get an error saying:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in /home/kuuja/public_html/test/validate.php on line 371

Can someone please help?

Regards,
Sudip

spiritssight

I think you problem is the below snippet, because you are using "" with the echo you need to escap your <a href ... " with \

sudip_dg77 wrote:
echo "<a href="http://www.google.com">To continue please click here..</a>";

echo "<a href=\"http://www.google.com\">... </a>";

HTH

Sincerely,
Christopher

BlueKai

As a rule, I always use single quotes for html tags so I never have to worry about this.

echo "<a href='http://google.com'>google</a>";

Also, for future reference, "Parse error when loading page" would be a much better title than "can someone please help me??"

examancer

heh... as a rule, i do the opposite... use single quotes in my php string definition so i can use double quotes in the HTML tag...

echo '<a href="http://google.com">google</a>';

but before that i try to follow the rule of not echo'ing HTML and instead escape out of PHP altogether.

bradgrafelman

You can also use heredoc syntax to output HTML so you don't have to worry about quoted string delimiters at all.

The point is, pick a style that you like and stick with it - if you like using double quotes, that's fine (it's easy to interpolate variables or special escape sequences such as \n), just train yourself to recognize the fact that whenever you want a literal double quote then you must escape it with a backslash.

Horizon88

Since we're all chiming in, I use single quotes for my PHP, double quotes in HTML that I echo out, and concatenation for variables. 😉

sheephat

ok my turn, i do both 🙂