Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, HELP Please

[watson100]

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /www/zzl.org/a/w/c/awchelp/htdocs/include/database.php on line 15

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<?
include("constants.php");

class MySQLDB
{
var $connection; //The MySQL database connection
var $num_active_users; //Number of active users viewing site
var $num_active_guests; //Number of active guests viewing site
var $num_members; //Number of signed-up users
/ Note: call getNumMembers() to access $num_members! /

/ Class constructor /
function MySQLDB(){
/ Make connection to database /
$this->connection = mysql_connect(MY DB SERVER,MY DB USERNAME,MY DB PASSWORD) or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db(MY DB TABLE NAME, $this->connection) or die(mysql_error());

  /**
   * Only query database to find out number of members
   * when getNumMembers() is called for the first time,
   * until then, default value set.
   */
  $this->num_members = -1;

  if(TRACK_VISITORS){
     /* Calculate number of users at site */
     $this->calcNumActiveUsers();

     /* Calculate number of guests at site */
     $this->calcNumActiveGuests();
  }

}

[big_nerd]

You have spaces in your constants, "MY DB TABLE NAME", etc (without quotes)

$this->connection = mysql_connect(MY DB SERVER,MY DB USERNAME,MY DB PASSWORD) or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db(MY DB TABLE NAME, $this->connection) or die(mysql_error());

As I recommended before, re-download the database.php from the site you got th elibraries from, and use the original.

When using constants, they have to be entered EXACTLY as are found in the constants.php file.. if they have underscores, use underscores.

In PHP, constants, as identified by define(), can not contain spaces or other reserved/illegal characters in PHP, similary to variables or function names.

Make sure that the "MY DB SERVER" is entered EXACTLY as in constants.php, if it's "MY_DB_SERVER" then it must be exact (without quotes).

And as mentioned before, it helps us to diagnose issues if you leave ALL programming code between the bbcode tags php and /php, entered like

[ php]

and

[ /php]

You will notice that i have a space between the [ and the php (or /php) that is only to show you how to use it.

If the above (bbcode tags) were correctly set without the space, you would see something like:

and

best of luck with the constants file.

[watson100]

ive read all of the instructions, ive changed the constants file (DB Settings) to the exact same settings as the database file has

[big_nerd]

watson,

What you needed to change was the database.php file to match the constants.php.

You can't have any spaces within your constants, if you have done this, please let me know, however, in the last code you posted you had spaces within the constants which you can not have.

[rincewind456]

As I said before you should NOT need to edit the database.php file.

You should change this section

define("DB_SERVER", "localhost");

define("DB_USER", "****");

define("DB_PASS", "****");

define("DB_NAME", "****");

replacing the * with your details.

If you do that and leave the other files alone you will find that the scripts work fine.