[RESOLVED] Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING

[funkymonkey]

I keep receiving this error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING on line 20. I have posted line 20 (the very last line I believe) can someone tell me what the issue is? and what does "unexpected T_STRING" mean for future reference?
Thanks in advance.

<?php
 $con = mysql_connect("localhost","myusername","mypassword
 if (!$con)
   {
   die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
   }

mysql_select_db("mydatabase", $con);

$sql="INSERT INTO Registration_Table (User_ID, Password) VALUES ('$_POST[username]','$_POST[password]')";

if (!mysql_query($sql,$con))
   {
   die('Error: ' . mysql_error());
   }
 echo $_POST[username];

Contact Information

<form method="post" action="surveycontactinformationinsert.php">

[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. Note that since I've added the tags for you, we can now see that something has gone very wrong with your syntax (not that your editor shouldn't already be doing color-coding for you... right??😉).

You've actually got a few problems:

1. This line:

   $con = mysql_connect("localhost","myusername","mypassword 

   is missing a double quote (to close the string), a right-parenthesis (to close the function call), and a semicolon (to end the statement).

2. You should never place user-supplied data directly into a SQL query string, else your code will be vulnerable to SQL injection attacks and/or just plain SQL errors. Instead, you must first sanitize the data with a function such as [man]mysql_real_escape_string/man (for string data).

3. This line:

   echo $_POST[username]; 

   is missing quotes around the array index (since the index is a string, you must surround the string with quotes - just as you would any other string in PHP).

4. These lines:

   Contact Information 
   
   <form method="post" action="surveycontactinformationinsert.php">

   are not PHP code and thus do not belong there.

[funkymonkey]

Thank you! You have solved everything.