[RESOLVED] Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<'

tobymac

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in /home/renovati/public_html/hcrindienetwork/index.php on line 19

What am i doing wrong? please rewrite

here are my first few lines

<?php
session_start();
$toplinks="";
if(isset($_SESSION[id])){
//Put stored session variable into local php variable
$useris=$_SESSION[id];
$username=$_SESSION[username];
$toplinks='<a href="member_profile.php?id='.$userid.">'.$username.'</a> &bull;
<a href=hcrindienetwork/database/member_account.php>Account</a> &bull;
}else{
$toplings =<a href=hcrindienetwork/database/join_form.php>Register</a> &bull; <a href=login.php>Login</a>;
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"


"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">


<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">


<head>


<title>HCR Network</title>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content=text"/html; charset=utf-8"/>

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="default.css">


<style>


#bodydiv


{


height: 600px;


}


</style>


</head>


<body>


<div id="container">


 <div id="content">


<div>


<?php include hcrheader/header.php; ?>


</div>


<div id="navbar">


<?php include menu.php; ?>


</div>


<div id="bodydiv">

dagon

look at the colour coding the var $toplinks is not properly formatted.

tobymac

dagon;10977951 wrote:
look at the colour coding the var $toplinks is not properly formatted.

how should it be formatted to work?

NogDog

You need to watch your quoting around string literals. There must be a closing quote of the same type (single or double) for each opening quote. If not, the PHP parser thinks any characters that follow are still part of the string literal. Unlike HTML, which often lets you "get away" with invalid syntax, you must be precisely correct with your syntax in a programming language.

if (isset($_SESSION[id])) {
   //Put stored session variable into local php variable
   $useris = $_SESSION[id];
   $username = $_SESSION[username];
   // need to make sure all quotes balanced out here:
   $toplinks = '<a href="member_profile.php?id=' . $userid . '">' . $username . '</a> &bull;
<a href=hcrindienetwork/database/member_account.php>Account</a> &bull';
} else {
   // you misspelled "$toplinks" here, and did not have *any* quotes
   $toplinks = '<a href="hcrindienetwork/database/join_form.php">Register</a> &bull; <a href="login.php">Login</a>';
}