Parse error need help quick!

wookietalk

Hello everyone i am trying to position my text, but as soon as i add another " to my code i get a parse error everytime , and i wonder what i am doing wrong

Here's what my original code looks like :

{
$war1="<font color='grey'>'".$login."' already exist!</font>";
$db->select_db($db_name);
}
else
{
$pass1 = ereg_replace( "[^A-Za-z0-9]", "", $POST['password'] );
$pass2 = ereg_replace( "[^A-Za-z0-9]", "", $POST['password2'] );
if ($pass1=='')
{
$war2="<font color='grey'>Type in a password!</font>";
}

And here's the code that i am trying to add.

{
$war2="<font color='grey'>Type in a password!</font>";
}
else
{
if ($pass1<>$pass2)
{
$war2="<div style=" top: 97; left: 17; position: absolute;} z-index: 1; visibility: show;"> Password don't match</div>";
}

Help anyone?

dalecosp

Welcome to PHPBuilder!

You must "escape" things like quote marks in strings. So:

$war2="<div style=" top: 97; left: 17; position: absolute;} z-index: 1; visibility: show;"> Password don't match</div>";

should become:

$war2="<div style=\" top: 97; left: 17; position: absolute;} z-index: 1; visibility: show;\"> Password don't match</div>";

Either that, or use a single quote around the style declaration in your <div> there.

Also, it's really handy to wrap your PHP code in [php] tags --- it really helps us "oldies" to see things like this quite quickly ... maybe you as well!

boufos

Or right the code like you did above

$war2="<div style=' top: 97; left: 17; position: absolute;} z-index: 1; visibility: show;'> Password don't match</div>";

wookietalk

Thank you two! No more parse error! However my text doesn't change it's position.
When i remove <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>

on my code, then it work's . But my website layout completely ruins if i remove it.

Any solution what could be the cause of this? only works without the w3 thing at the top.

wookietalk

Never mind guy's! i fixed the problem by using the correct code which is :
<div style='position:absolute;left:462px;top:116px;width:71px;height:19px;z-index:2 show;'> Password don't match </div>";

Thank's for all the help!