Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING

[batjen]

Hallo!

I am wondering if someone can give me a leg up on this error message I am getting when I run this script:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/shecard2/public_html/greetings/resource/richedit/show_it.php on line 56

Here are lines 56 and 57 of the code:

$folder .="<td STYLE="cursor:hand;cursor: pointer" onClick="location.href='$script_url?what=$what&step=2&page=1&cat=$get_item';" onMouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#C6D3EF';this.style.border='1px solid #3169C6'; " onMouseout="this.style.backgroundColor=''; this.style.border=''" align="center" height="27" >n";
$folder .="<font face=Verdana size=1>Category: <b>$get_item2</b></font><br><img align=absmiddle src=$folder_url/$get_item/$random_img_cat></td>n";

I didn't write this script, and the fellah that did is rather hapless when responding to help requests, so I am wondering if this is something simple that I can correct on my own.

Any help at all would be sincerely appreciated.

Thanks!

[NogDog]

If you want to use double-quote characters within a double-quoted string, you must "escape" those internal double-quotes with a back-slash ("\") character. (The same is true for single-quote characters withing a single-quoted string.)

An alternative in this case is to use single-quotes around the HTML attribute values so that you don't have to worry about it.

$string = "<td style='style stuff here'> and so on...</td>";
// escaped:
$another_string = "<td style=\"more style stuff\"> and so forth... </td>";

[dagon]

escape the " with \

$folder .="<td STYLE=\"cursor:hand;cursor: pointer\"

there's a start you do the rest

[batjen]

'm slappin' my forehead here... thanks so much! :-)