Parse Error Please help!

jfleck25

Building a simple login / link mechanism... Here is the error i am getting.I know it's coming from the last "$toplinks" below. Please help!

"Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/renovati/public_html/sourcevibe.com/loggedout.php on line 16"

/* 
This is the top stuff that nobody can see! 
*/
// See if they are a logged in member by checking Session data
$toplinks = "";
if (isset($_SESSION['id'])) {
	// Put stored session variables into local php variable
    $userid = $_vibe['id'];
    $vibe = $_SESSION['vibe'];
	$toplinks = '<a href="musician/member_profile.php?id=' . $userid . '">Profile</a> &bull; 
	<a href="http://www.sourcevibe.com">Account</a> &bull; 
	<a href="musician/logout.php">Log Out</a>';
} else {
	 $toplinks = '<? php include 'musician/login.php'; ?>';

}
?>

Weedpacket

<? php

Remove the space between the [font=monospace]<?[/font] and the [font=monospace]php[/font].

dalecosp

Weedpacket;11031337 wrote:
<? php 
Remove the space between the [font=monospace]<?[/font] and the [font=monospace]php[/font].

True enough, but WITW is a code declaration doing in a variable assignment anyway? Aren't we already parsing PHP at this point...?

Weedpacket

dalecosp;11031339 wrote:
True enough, but WITW is a code declaration doing in a variable assignment anyway? Aren't we already parsing PHP at this point...?

Exellent point - I've been going through a lot of jQuery-generating PHP lately and must've left my brain in the wrong gear. If we weren't already parsing PHP the error would have been an unexpected include statement.

jfleck25

Still have not found a solution. What should I do here? getting rid of the space didn't do anything

dalecosp

Don't call the PHP interpreter while in the PHP interpreter, then?

dalecosp

To give a little more hint (while on the bosses' time), perhaps this?

else {
   include 'musician/login.php'; // you will have to make this file give you $toplinks
}

OR, perhaps there's a function inside login.php?

else {
     // it might even include a parameter so we'd know some context for that....
   $toplinks = gimme_my_toplinks("musicians_login");
}

jfleck25

Okay, Thanks! What code should i place into login.php for this to work?

dalecosp

That depends on what $toplinks is in the excerpt you've shown above and the code (presumably?) that it's used in later. If $toplinks is supposed to be what the name "toplinks" implies, it's probably some HTML link code that you intend to use somewhere further down the script?

So, whatever you do on the right side of this assignment:

$toplinks = do_something();

should return this HTML link code (in this example, we can presume the function "do_something()" returns code that is assigned to the variable $toplinks for later use in a template or print/echo statement).