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  • SharkHunter
    #1

    Parser Error with Double Quotes


    Hi all,
    I am new to PHP programming.

    When I started with small examples of PHP, i landed with such errors
    which make me feel annoying.

    Incase of this snippet
    ---------
    06 <?php
    07 echo "Click here to see information about my favorite movie!";
    08 echo "</a>";
    09 ?>
    -----------------------------------

    the following error occurs..

    Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in
    C:\Program Files\xampp\htd ocs\movie1.php on line 7

    But while i replace the double quotes with single; everything works
    perfectly..

    Please comment on this.

    Regards,
    madan

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    • Geoff Berrow
      #2
      Re: Parser Error with Double Quotes

      Message-ID: <1144568848.874 348.153970@g10g 2000cwb.googleg roups.com> from
      SharkHunter contained the following:
      [color=blue]
      >Incase of this snippet
      >---------
      >06 <?php
      >07 echo "Click here to see information about my favorite movie!";
      >08 echo "</a>";
      >09 ?>[/color]

      What's in the lines above?

      --
      Geoff Berrow (put thecat out to email)
      It's only Usenet, no one dies.
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        • SharkHunter
          #3
          Re: Parser Error with Double Quotes

          The complete file would be

          <html>
          <head>
          <TITLE>Find my Favorite Movie!</TITLE>
          </head>
          <body>
          <?php
          echo "Click here to see information about my favorite movie!";
          echo "</a>";
          ?>
          </body>
          </html>

          Thanks

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            • Geoff Berrow
              #4
              Re: Parser Error with Double Quotes

              Message-ID: <1144571725.079 727.135950@u72g 2000cwu.googleg roups.com> from
              SharkHunter contained the following:
              [color=blue]
              ><html>
              ><head>
              ><TITLE>Find my Favorite Movie!</TITLE>
              ></head>
              ><body>
              ><?php
              >echo "Click here to see information about my favorite movie!";
              >echo "</a>";
              >?>
              ></body>
              ></html>[/color]

              Nothing wrong with that. I think you have missed out the bit that as
              causing the error.

              I suspect your original script looked like this:


              <?php
              echo "<a href="somepage. php" >Click here to see information about my
              favorite movie!";
              echo "</a>";
              ?>

              The quotes in the anchor tag need to be escaped (ie preceded by a
              backslash like so \" ) or replaced with single quotes.

              Having said that, there is no need for double quotes unless the echoed
              part contains a variable which you want to expand. Therefore using
              single quotes is fine. e.g.

              <?php
              echo '<a href="somepage. php" >Click here to see information about my
              favorite movie!';
              echo '</a>';
              ?>

              --
              Geoff Berrow (put thecat out to email)
              It's only Usenet, no one dies.
              My opinions, not the committee's, mine.
              Simple RFDs http://www.ckdog.co.uk/rfdmaker/

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                • SharkHunter
                  #5
                  Re: Parser Error with Double Quotes

                  Thanks Anyway, I have solved it.
                  The prpblem is that i have copied these examples from the pdf. so the
                  Double quotes used in the pdf are not being parsed by PHP.

                  So this solves. it.

                  Thanks.
                  Madan

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                    • SharkHunter
                      #6
                      Re: Parser Error with Double Quotes

                      Thanks a lot for your reply..
                      But the problem was with myself trying the code as per the pdf.

                      Regards,
                      Madan

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