Gerting Error Message: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_BOOLEAN_AND

globalnerds

I am getting the error message: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_BOOLEAN_AND

on the follwing "if" statement:

    if ($row['inputType']=='email') && (!intval($row['required']) {
                                $form_validator = Loader::helper('validation/strings');
                                if (!$form_validator->email(trim($_POST['Question'.$row['msqID']]))) 
                                {   

                                        $errors[$row['msqID']] = $row['question']." ".t("is empty or isn't an emailaddress");
                                        $notCompleted=1;             

                                }                           

                                if ((int)(intval($row['other']) / 2) == 1) {
                                        // This is a special validated email question (with two actual fields)
                                        if ($_POST['Question'.$row['msqID']] != $_POST['Question'.$row['msqID'].'_2'])
                                        {   

                                                $errors[$row['msqID']] = $row['question']." ".t("doesn't match the confirmation");
                                                $notCompleted=1;             

                                        }   

                                }   

                        }

The original statement worked, the only thing I changed was this:

if ($row['inputType']=='email') {

to this:

if ($row['inputType']=='email') && (!intval($row['required']) {

Any ideas as to what I did wrong? I am a newbe to php, so I am sure it is some sort of syntax error that I am not seeing.

Thanks in advance

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Derokorian

You are closing the if operation after the string 'email' with that closing paren, what you need to do instead if remove the paren after 'email' and before !intval so that it looks more like:

if ($row['inputType']=='email' && !intval($row['required']) {

bradgrafelman

Also note that you can still keep the ()'s as you had before to more clearly indicate the order of operations, but you'll have to add a pair of ()'s around the (now two) subconditions so that they're both inside the if() statement.

Example of what you had before:

if( A )

Example of what you had after your changes (that induced the parse error):

if( A ) && B

Example of how you should have written it instead:

if( ( A ) && ( B ) )

globalnerds

I tried changing the if statement to this:

 if ($row['inputType']=='email') && (!intval($row['required']) {

and I received the following message:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected

bradgrafelman

That's the exact same code you posted above.