Parse Error Unexpected $end

Cymy

I saw that there is another thread addressing this problem, but reading through it didn't help me solve my problem.

I am a brand new newbie. I am taking a class which utilizes Ellie Quigley's PHP and MySQL by Example, printed in 2007. For those who may have the book, this is Example 4.4 on page 64.

I am getting the following error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /home/user/public_html/directory/example4.4.php on line 21

Here is the code, exactly as it is in the book except for one typo which I fixed. I'm pretty sure the typo I fixed isn't causing the problem:

<?php
	$bgcolor="darkblue";
	$tablecolor="yellow";
	print <<<MY_BOUNDARY
	<html><head><title>heredoc</title></head>
	<body bgcolor="$bgcolor">
	<table border="1" bgcolor=$tablecolor>
	   <tr><th>Author</th><th>Book</th></tr>
	   <tr>
	      <td>Marcel Proust</td>
	      <td>Remembrance of Things Past</td>
	   </tr>
	   <tr>
	      <td>Charles Dickens</td>
	      <td>Tale of Two Cities</td>
	   </tr>
	</table>
	</body>
	</html>
	MY_BOUNDARY;
?>

The typo I fixed was in the table header row, the book didn't have a close > on one of the </th> tags.

I've typed this code in three times--If I am introducing an error then I've done it all three times.

Any hints or clues would be most appreciated.

--Cymy

Cymy

I figured out what the problem is--the ending MY_BOUNDARY; needs to be flush left. The book displays it indented.

Apparently there are a significant number of errors in this book and no errata provided by the publisher--I found other people who also complained about the lack of proofreading.

For anyone who happens to come across this post through a search, I started a page of errata at http://erikastokes.com/php-and-mysql-by-example-errata.html -- feel free to contribute.

bradgrafelman

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