Parse error

crazyconnie

I am getting this error and I can't figure out why. Anyone want to take a shot at it. I am new to all of this, but I am going buggy trying to figure it out.
thanks

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in

echo "<td a href=deleteconfirm.php?id=".$row['id'].">"<img src='delete_button.jpg'>"</a></td>";

coldwerturkey

echo "<td a href=deleteconfirm.php?id=".$row['id'].">"<img src='delete_button.jpg'>"</a></td>";

learn to escape your strings. google for more info.

crazyconnie

Okay, I did that, now I get this error,
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';'

On the same line.

coldwerturkey

then fix the line prior to it, probably didn't close the line with a semi-colon.

crazyconnie

Here is the script. The line in question is the second echo from the bottom

echo "<tr><td>".$row['course_id']."</td>";
echo "<td>".$row['course_title']."</td>";
echo "<td>".$row['time']."</td>";
echo "<td>".$row['location']."</td>";
echo "<td>".$row['instructor']."</td>";
echo "<td a href=deleteconfirm.php?id=".$row['id'].">"<img src='delete_button.jpg'>"</a></td>";
echo "<td a href=updateform.php?id=".$row['id'].">"<img src='update_button.jpg'>"</a></td></tr>";

coldwerturkey

crazyconnie;10911764 wrote:
Here is the script. The line in question is the second echo from the bottom

echo "<tr><td>".$row['course_id']."</td>";
echo "<td>".$row['course_title']."</td>";
echo "<td>".$row['time']."</td>";
echo "<td>".$row['location']."</td>";
echo "<td>".$row['instructor']."</td>";
echo "<td a href=deleteconfirm.php?id=".$row['id'].">"<img src='delete_button.jpg'>"</a></td>";
echo "<td a href=updateform.php?id=".$row['id'].">"<img src='update_button.jpg'>"</a></td></tr>";

Here is the answer:

coldwerturkey;10911761 wrote:
learn to escape your strings. google for more info.

NogDog

Please use this site's [noparse]

...

[/noparse] bbcode tags around your code snippets. Not only does it make them easier to read, but it's syntax highlighting may help to see where the problem is. (Using an editor/IDE with syntax highlighting and built-in parse-checking can help a lot, too.)

For parse errors such as "unexpected blah blah blah...", it may be due to an error somewhere in the preceding code, so it's often useful to supply a few lines before the line cited in the error message along with that offending line.

NogDog

echo "<tr><td>".$row['course_id']."</td>";
echo "<td>".$row['course_title']."</td>";
echo "<td>".$row['time']."</td>";
echo "<td>".$row['location']."</td>";
echo "<td>".$row['instructor']."</td>";
echo "<td a href=deleteconfirm.php?id=".$row['id']."><img src='delete_button.jpg'></a></td>";
echo "<td a href=updateform.php?id=".$row['id']."><img src='update_button.jpg'></a></td></tr>";

crazyconnie

Thanks, it now displays correctly, but the last two lines of code are suppose to be links. Thats why there are images in the code. The images are on the page, but they are not links. Any ideas? Also, how does a person use the sites php code thing for highlighting script in a post?

coldwerturkey

crazyconnie;10911770 wrote:
Thanks, it now displays correctly, but the last two lines of code are suppose to be links. Thats why there are images in the code. The images are on the page, but they are not links. Any ideas?

Put link tags around them.

crazyconnie;10911770 wrote:
Also, how does a person use the sites php code thing for highlighting script in a post?

like he said,

NogDog;10911766 wrote:
[noparse]
...
[/noparse]

NogDog

Forum BBCode info

crazyconnie

I still can't get it to work, and as you can see, I can't get the php thing to work either.

echo "<td>"<a href=deleteconfirm.php?id=".$row['id']."><img src='delete_button.jpg'></a></td>";
echo "<td>"<a href=updateform.php?id=".$row['id']."><img src='update_button.jpg'></a></td></tr>";

crazyconnie

My bad, I thought it didn't work because it wasnt color when I placed it in.

NogDog

The quotes between the <td> and the <a on each line need to be removed.

crazyconnie

That changed the code to the correct colors, but they still are not links.

NogDog

You may need to quote your HTML tag attributes (and it's mandatory if outputting it as XHTML).

echo "<td><a href='deleteconfirm.php?id=".$row['id']."'><img src='delete_button.jpg'></a></td>";
echo "<td><a href='updateform.php?id=".$row['id']."'><img src='update_button.jpg'></a></td></tr>";