error message Parse error syntax error, unexpected '('

libby3423

Hi,

I have been trying to get this sorted but I am having no luck with this
certain page:

First I was getting this error message:

Warning: file_get_contents(http://ecs.amazonaws.com/onca/xml?Service=AWSECommerceService&Version=2005-03-23&Operation=ItemSearch&ContentType=text%2Fxml&SubscriptionId=122CAXMJKCG3B7DHGZG2&AssociateTag=xxxxxxxxxx-xxx&SearchIndex=Books&BrowseNode=&Keywords=asthma&ItemPage=1&Sort=&ResponseGroup=Images,ItemAttributes,OfferFull,Medium,VariationSummary) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request in /home/XXXXXXX/public_html/XXXXX.com/XXXXX/includes/amazon.php on line 847

Now I did try to change out this function:

on that line from this: file_get_contents

to this:fopen

but then I got this error message:

Warning: fopen() expects at least 2 parameters, 1 given in /home/XXXXX/public_html/XXXXXX.com/XXXXX/includes/amazon.php on line 847

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/XXXXXX/public_html/XXXXXXXXX.com/XXXXXXX/includes/amazon.php on line 871

Please can someone help me to sort this out and tell me where I am going wrong
or what coding now needs to be changed in order to get this script page sorted please?

I thank you so very much and will await your much needed expert advice back into this error message, I am a newbie still learning all this PHP trying but not getting to far.

                               libby

libby3423

here is part of that code:

as I can not seem to get it to all go into here:

I will start it at the line the error message is on:

// Get the response from Amazon
$xml = file_get_contents($request);

// Parse the results
$Result = xmlparser($xml);}

//echo'<td  width="160" valign="top" align="center">';

//content

echo'<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="160"><tr>';

$Message=$Result['ItemSearchResponse']['Items'][0]['Request']['Errors']['Error'][0]['Message'];

if (isset($Message)) {
echo'<table width="160" border="0" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0" align="center">
<tr><td align="left" class="errorClass">'.$Message.'</td></tr></table>';}
 else {

$TotalPages=$Result['ItemSearchResponse']['Items'][0]['TotalPages'];

if ($TotalPages>100){$TotalPages=100;}

foreach ($Result['ItemSearchResponse']['Items'][0]['Item'] as $item) {

libby3423

Hi again,

please forgive me if I am posting alot to this but I can not seem to get all the
code into here under one post:

so After I changed the code from: file_get_contents To this code:fopen on line
847 that is when got the above 2nd error message that I posted in my first post here.
Below is the code with the part I changed.
I sure hope that I have given enough info so that someone here can please be so kind as to help me sort this file out. thanks and I look forward to the reply back

                          libby

// Get the response from Amazon
$xml = fopen ($request);

//$xml = simplexml_load_file($request); 

// Parse the results
$Result = xmlparser($xml);}

//echo'<td  width="160" valign="top" align="center">';

//content

echo'<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="160"><tr>';

$Message=$Result['ItemSearchResponse']['Items'][0]['Request']['Errors']['Error'][0]['Message'];

if (isset($Message)) {
echo'<table width="160" border="0" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0" align="center">
<tr><td align="left" class="errorClass">'.$Message.'</td></tr></table>';}
 else {

$TotalPages=$Result['ItemSearchResponse']['Items'][0]['TotalPages'];

if ($TotalPages>100){$TotalPages=100;}

foreach ($Result['ItemSearchResponse']['Items'][0]['Item'] as $item) {