Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING

[Benck]

Hi, I have been following along with the "Colored Lists: Creating A Web App From Scratch" tutorial and I got an error message when trying to test sign up for an account. What's supposed to happen is a member submits his/her email and then a verification message is send to the supplied email address. When I put in my email and clicked the submit button I got this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in .... on line 64

(PS the dots are added by me)

Here are lines starting at 60:

if(!$this->sendVerificationEmail($u, $v)) {
                return "<h2> Error </h2>"
                    . "<p> There was an error sending your"
                    . " verification email. Please "
                    . "<a href="mailto:[e-mail]<script type="text/javascript">
/* <![CDATA[ */
(function(){try{var s,a,i,j,r,c,l=document.getElementById("__cf_email__");a=l.className;if(a){s='';r=parseInt(a.substr(0,2),16);for(j=2;a.length-j;j+=2){c=parseInt(a.substr(j,2),16)^r;s+=String.fromCharCode(c);}s=document.createTextNode(s);l.parentNode.replaceChild(s,l);}}catch(e){}})();
/* ]]> */
</script>">contact "
                    . "us</a> for support. We apologize for the "
                    . "inconvenience. </p>";
            }

Please help and thanks for taking a look.

[NogDog]

If you are defining a string literal within double quotes, then any literal double quotes within that string must be escaped via a back-slash. (Alternatively, where possible, you could just use single quotes and not have to escape them.)

Also, I doubt that it's legal to have a <script> tag embedded inside of another tag (the <a> tag in this case). If it is, then I've learned something new. 🙂

[Benck]

Thanks, I'll give it a try. Does that script make any sense to you just by looking at? I'm fairly new to PHP and I'm not sure what that script is there for. I would take it out or replace it with something else if it is negligible.

[NogDog]

I'm not sure what the <script>...</script> stuff is doing. Personally, I'd remove it unless/until someone confirms it should be there.

[Weedpacket]

NogDog;11011217 wrote:

I'm not sure what the <script>...</script> stuff is doing. Personally, I'd remove it unless/until someone confirms it should be there.

All I can make out is that it's some sort of ColdFusion thing for replacing one node of a the document by another.