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  • loic_e_bertrand@yahoo.fr
    #1

    First script - basic question

    Hi,

    I created an HTML page with the following code:
    <html>
    <body>
    <form action="everif. php" method="post">
    Name: <input type="text" name="name" size="12"><br>
    First name: <input type="text" name="fname" size="12">
    <input type="submit" value="OK">
    </form>
    </body>

    </html>

    and everif.php contains:
    <?php
    $fname= $_POST['fname'];
    $name= $_POST['name'];
    echo("<center>H i $fname $name</center>");
    ?>


    When I press OK from the HTML page 1 get:
    Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in
    /var/www/free.fr/d/c/parispain/everif.php on line 2

    where line 2 is:
    $fname= $_POST['fname'];


    Why?

    Thank you.

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    • Angelos
      #2
      Re: First script - basic question

      > <?php[color=blue]
      > $fname= $_POST['fname'];
      > $name= $_POST['name'];
      > echo("<center>H i $fname $name</center>");
      > ?>
      >
      >
      > When I press OK from the HTML page 1 get:
      > Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in
      > /var/www/free.fr/d/c/parispain/everif.php on line 2
      >
      > where line 2 is:
      > $fname= $_POST['fname'];[/color]

      I am not sure but first of all you should check if $_POST['fname']; is set .
      so it should be somthing like :
      if (isset($_POST['fname'])) $fname = $_POST['fname'];
      else $fname = "";

      the same for the $_POST['name']

      Try that ... but then again I am not sure if it solves your problem!!!


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        • Angelos
          #3
          Re: First script - basic question

          > echo("<center>H i $fname $name</center>");

          And This is not going to echo your $fname and $name ...

          Do that:
          echo ("Hello".$fname ." ".$name);


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            • Philip Ronan
              #4
              Re: First script - basic question

              loic_e_bertrand @yahoo.fr wrote:
              [color=blue]
              > (snip)
              > everif.php contains:
              > <?php
              > $fname= $_POST['fname'];
              > $name= $_POST['name'];
              > echo("<center>H i $fname $name</center>");
              > ?>
              >
              > When I press OK from the HTML page 1 get:
              > Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in
              > /var/www/free.fr/d/c/parispain/everif.php on line 2[/color]

              Your code looks Ok to me. You don't need any brackets in the echo statement,
              but it doesn't really matter.

              Perhaps there's a problem with the line breaks in your PHP source. I think
              PHP likes to see a carriage return and linefeed at the end of every line.
              Some editors (especially on Mac systems) use carriage returns but no
              linefeeds.

              --
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                • Oli Filth
                  #5
                  Re: First script - basic question

                  Angelos wrote:[color=blue][color=green]
                  > > echo("<center>H i $fname $name</center>");[/color]
                  >
                  > And This is not going to echo your $fname and $name ...[/color]

                  Yes it is!

                  --
                  Oli

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                    • Oli Filth
                      #6
                      Re: First script - basic question

                      Philip Ronan wrote:[color=blue]
                      > Perhaps there's a problem with the line breaks in your PHP source. I[/color]
                      think[color=blue]
                      > PHP likes to see a carriage return and linefeed at the end of every[/color]
                      line.[color=blue]
                      > Some editors (especially on Mac systems) use carriage returns but no
                      > linefeeds.[/color]

                      Who told you that? You can write a whole PHP script all on line without
                      any newlines or carriage returns if you want.

                      --
                      Oli

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                        • Ewoud Dronkert
                          #7
                          Re: First script - basic question

                          On Tue, 17 May 2005 09:56:07 +0000 (UTC), Angelos wrote:[color=blue][color=green]
                          >> echo("<center>H i $fname $name</center>");[/color]
                          >
                          > And This is not going to echo your $fname and $name ...[/color]

                          Yes it is.
                          [color=blue]
                          > Do that: echo ("Hello".$fname ." ".$name);[/color]

                          No, no need for that when using double quotes.


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                            • Ewoud Dronkert
                              #8
                              Re: First script - basic question

                              On Tue, 17 May 2005 11:12:10 +0100, Philip Ronan wrote:[color=blue][color=green]
                              >> <?php
                              >> $fname= $_POST['fname'];
                              >> $name= $_POST['name'];
                              >> echo("<center>H i $fname $name</center>");
                              >> ?>
                              >>
                              >> When I press OK from the HTML page 1 get:
                              >> Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in
                              >> /var/www/free.fr/d/c/parispain/everif.php on line 2[/color]
                              >
                              > Your code looks Ok to me.[/color]

                              Me too. Did you copy and paste the code in your news post, or type it?
                              Your error could be from one space too many, for example after <? or $.


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                                • Philip Ronan
                                  #9
                                  Re: First script - basic question

                                  Oli Filth wrote:
                                  [color=blue]
                                  > Philip Ronan wrote:[color=green]
                                  >> Perhaps there's a problem with the line breaks in your PHP source. I[/color]
                                  > think[color=green]
                                  >> PHP likes to see a carriage return and linefeed at the end of every[/color]
                                  > line.[color=green]
                                  >> Some editors (especially on Mac systems) use carriage returns but no
                                  >> linefeeds.[/color]
                                  >
                                  > Who told you that? You can write a whole PHP script all on line without
                                  > any newlines or carriage returns if you want.[/color]

                                  I just seem to recall having a few parse errors of my own before I set my
                                  text editor up to use DOS line breaks.

                                  I can't see what else could be wrong with the OP's script.

                                  Can you?

                                  --
                                  phil [dot] ronan @ virgin [dot] net
                                  http://vzone.virgin.net/phil.ronan/



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                                    • loic_e_bertrand@yahoo.fr
                                      #10
                                      Re: First script - basic question

                                      I cut and paste the script so I do not think additional spaces could be
                                      the origin of the problem.
                                      However, I *AM* using a Mac and it could be a carriage return issue...

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                                        • Ewoud Dronkert
                                          #11
                                          Re: First script - basic question

                                          On 17 May 2005 06:04:03 -0700, loic_e_bertrand @yahoo.fr wrote:[color=blue]
                                          > However, I *AM* using a Mac and it could be a carriage return issue...[/color]

                                          Yes, probably, if your server is not a Mac.


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                                            • Philip Ronan
                                              #12
                                              Re: First script - basic question

                                              loic_e_bertrand @yahoo.fr wrote:
                                              [color=blue]
                                              > I cut and paste the script so I do not think additional spaces could be
                                              > the origin of the problem.
                                              > However, I *AM* using a Mac and it could be a carriage return issue...
                                              >[/color]

                                              There are lots of decent free/shareware editors that might help. Try BBEdit
                                              and JEdit, for example.

                                              --
                                              phil [dot] ronan @ virgin [dot] net
                                              http://vzone.virgin.net/phil.ronan/



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                                                • loic_e_bertrand@yahoo.fr
                                                  #13
                                                  Re: First script - basic question

                                                  OK,

                                                  The issue was just an uncorrect unicode space character replacing a
                                                  normal space, around an '=' sign.

                                                  Thank you very much,

                                                  Loïc

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