unexpected string still exists

[mamn85]

Please help me, unexpected string still exists. everytime i execute this code, i always got this error : Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in C:\xampp\htdocs\test\update.php on line 37

These are the codes :

$rows=mysql_fetch_array($result);

echo '<table width="400" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0">
		<tr>
		<form name="form1" method="post" action="update_ac.php">
		<td>
		<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0">
		<tr>
		<td>&nbsp;</td>
		<td colspan="3"><strong>Update data in mysql</strong> </td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
		<td align="center">&nbsp;</td>
		<td align="center">&nbsp;</td>
		<td align="center">&nbsp;</td>
		<td align="center">&nbsp;</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
		<td align="center">&nbsp;</td>
		<td align="center"><strong>Name</strong></td>
		<td align="center"><strong>Lastname</strong></td>
		<td align="center"><strong>Email</strong></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
		<td>&nbsp;</td>
		<td align="center"><input name="name" type="text" id="name" value="<? echo $rows['name']; ?>"></td>
		<td align="center"><input name="lastname" type="text" id="lastname" value="<? echo $rows['lastname']; ?>" size="15"></td>
		<td><input name="email" type="text" id="email" value="<? echo $rows['email']; ?>" size="15"></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
		<td>&nbsp;</td>
		<td><input name="id" type="hidden" id="id" value="<? echo $rows['id']; ?>"></td>
		<td align="center"><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit"></td>
		<td>&nbsp;</td>
		</tr>
		</table>
		</td>
		</form>
		</tr>
		</table>';

line 37 is on statement :

<td align="center"><input name="name" type="text" id="name" value="<? echo $rows['name']; ?>"></td>

what happened here, i dont understand, please help me.... 😕

[Bilbozilla]

Start your php section by using <?php instead of <?. Additionally, place a "\" before your quotation marks to identify.

For example,

echo '<table width="400" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0">
<tr>

vs.

echo "<table width=\"400\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"0\">
<tr>

Let us know how it turns out. The <?php tip should fix things.

Just found another problem. - Properly merge your strings.

<td><input name="id" type="hidden" id="id" value="<? echo $rows['id']; ?>"></td>

should be

<td><input name=\\"id\" type=\"hidden\" id=\"id\" value=\"".$rows['id']."\"></td>

[jerdo]

This works:

<?php
$rows=mysql_fetch_array($result);

echo '<table width="400" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0">
        <tr>
        <form name="form1" method="post" action="update_ac.php">
        <td>
        <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0">
        <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
        <td colspan="3"><strong>Update data in mysql</strong> </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
        <td align="center">&nbsp;</td>
        <td align="center">&nbsp;</td>
        <td align="center">&nbsp;</td>
        <td align="center">&nbsp;</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
        <td align="center">&nbsp;</td>
        <td align="center"><strong>Name</strong></td>
        <td align="center"><strong>Lastname</strong></td>
        <td align="center"><strong>Email</strong></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
        <td align="center"><input name="name" type="text" id="name" value="$rows[name]"></td>
        <td align="center"><input name="lastname" type="text" id="lastname" value="$rows[lastname]" size="15"></td>
        <td><input name="email" type="text" id="email" value="$rows[email]" size="15"></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
        <td><input name="id" type="hidden" id="id" value="$rows[id]"></td>
        <td align="center"><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit"></td>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
        </tr>
        </table>
        </td>
        </form>
        </tr>
        </table>';
?>

It looks like the errors were being generated by have things like <? echo "";?> inside what is already a long echo string.

[scrupul0us]

You are trying to echo inside an echo