Having trouble with Parse Error

Sparrow

Parse error: parse error in C:\wamp\www\TwoFunctions.php on line 14

Here is what I'm working with...this is copied from a book and I've had trouble with several of the exercises 🙁

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
     <!-- Code by -->
	 <head>
	      <title>Two Functions</title>
	 </head>
	 <body>
          <?php
	function printMessage($FirstMessage) {
		echo "<p>$FirstMessage</p>
	}
	function returnMessage() {
		return "<p>This message was returned from a function.</p>";
	}
	printMessage ("This message was printed from a function.");
	$ReturnValue = returnMessage();
		echo $ReturnValue;            

        ?>
	 </body>
</html>

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

bradgrafelman

When posting PHP code, please use the board's [noparse]

..

[/noparse] bbcode tags as they make your code much easier to read and analyze.

Now that I've added your tags, the color coding (something your IDE/editor should already be doing! 😉) basically points out where the error is:

echo "<p>$FirstMessage</p>

this line is missing a closing string delimiter as well as a semicolon.