[RESOLVED] syntax Error called "unexpected $end

myPHP2011

hello world am stuck with this syntax error " Unexpected $end "at the last line of the code. basically the code is to display the inputed value next to the form.

Here is the code:

<?PHP
$firstname = $lastname = $sex = $occupation = $email ="";
if (isset($_POST['frmFirst']))
$firstname = fix_string($_POST['frmFirst']);
if (isset($_POST['frmLast']))
$lastname = fix_string($_POST['frmLast']);
if (isset($_POST['frmEmail']))
$email = fix_string($_POST['frmEmail']);


$fail = validateFirstname($firstname);
$fail .= validateLastname($lastname);
$fail .= validateEmail($email);





function validateFirstname($field)
{
    if ($field == "") return "No first name was entered<br />";
    return "";
}    

 function validateLastname($field)
{    if ($field == "") return "No Last name was entered <br />";
    return "";

}

function validateEmail($field)
{
    if ($field == "") return "No Email entered <br />";
  else if(!((strpos($field , ".") > 0) && (strpos($field , "@") > 0)) || preg_match("/[^\w]/" , $field))
  return "The email is invalid" ;
}


function fix_string($string)
{
    $var = stripslashes($string);
    $var = htmlentities($string);
    return $var;
}

if ($fail == "") {
$output = <<< EOPAGE
<!Doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd xhtml 1.0 transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/tr/Xhtml1/dtd/transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head><title> Form Test using Array </title>
<style type ="text/css">
<!--
.table1 { border: 1px ; solid #999999 ; font: normal 14px helvetica; color: #444444;}
.h1 { font-family: arial ; decoration: underline }
-->
</style>
<body bgcolor="ffffcc">
<form method ="post" Action ="Personal_details_processor.php">
<table class ="table1" cellpadding ="2" cellspacing ="5" width ="100%" >
<tr>
<td>
<table width="50%">
<tr>
<th colspan="2" align="center"><span class ="h1"></span>Personal Details Form</span> </th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td ><label for ="title"> Title</label></td>
<td><select  id="title"name="title" size ="1"  width="10">
        <option> Mr </option>
        <option> Mrs </option>
        <option> Dr </option>
        <option> Miss </option>
        <option> Master </option>
        </select>
    </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
    <td><label for="firstname"> First Name</label></td>
    <td><input type ="text"  id ="firstname" name ="frmFirst" size = "20" maxlenght="20" /> </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
    <td><label for="lastname"> Last Name</label></td>
    <td><input type ="text" id ="lastname" name ="frmLast" size ="20" maxlength ="20" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr><td><label for="sex"> Sex</label></td>  

                               <td><select name="frmSex" size ="1" id="sex" >
                                <option> Male</option>
                                <option>Female</option>
                                </select></td>
    </tr>
    <tr><td><label for="email">Email Address</label></td>
    <td><input type ="text" id ="email" name ="frmEmail" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr><td><label for="occupation"> Occupation </label></td>
    <td><select  id ="occupation" name ="frmOccpation" size="1" />
        <option>Student</option>
        <option>Doctor</option>
        <option>Lawyer</option>
        <option>Teacher</option>
        <option>IT</option>
        <option>Nurse</option>
        <option>Accountant</option>
        </select>
    </td>
    <tr >
    <td><input type ="submit" name="frmSubmit" value ="Submit" /></td>
   <td> <input type ="reset" name ="frmReset" value ="Input More ?" />
    </td>
    </tr>
    </table>
    </td>
<td>



 FIRST NAME : $firstname <br />
 LAST NAME : $lastname <br />
 SEX :       $sex <br />
 OCCUPATION : $occupation <br />
 EMAIL : $email <br />



</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>
EOPAGE ;
Echo "$output";
}
?>

bradgrafelman

The error is caused by the extraneous space on line #130 (where the 'EOPAGE' closing identifier appears).

Read the warning in the manual on the usage of the heredoc syntax.

EDIT: Also, when posting PHP code, please use the board's [noparse]

..

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