[RESOLVED] just learning

genswat

I am band new noobie

I have been reading books and using this site as well as others to learn.. every time I run a script from a tutorial mad parse errors and they are word for word from the book telling me what results to expect and parse errors arnt part of the results

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
<?php
$set_var = 0; //set_var has a value
//never_set does not
print (“set_var print value: $set_var<BR>”);
if ($set_var == $never_set)
print (“set_var is equal to never_set!<BR>”);
if (IsSet($set_var))
print (“set_var is set.<BR>”);
else
print (“set_var is not set.<BR>”);
if (IsSet($never_set))
print (“never_set is set.<BR>”);
else
print (“never_set is not set.”); 
?>
</body>
</html>

here is the error

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_PRINT in /home/generam2/public_html/test.php on line 12

NogDog

Within the PHP code you have directional left-/right-quotes, when they should be non-directional. If you typed them in yourself, then make sure you are using a "plain text" editor and not some sort of word processor that has "smart quotes" or a similar feature that converts normal quotes into those directional quotes.

<?php
$foo = "This is correct.";
$bar = “This is NOT correct.”;
?>

genswat

Thanks alot, I am glad there are so many helpfull people in the php world...

genswat

Glad to see helpfull people still exist 🙂

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