Looking for help with this Contact Form.

The error is on line 1, but that' doesn't mean a lot, I think. In fact, a php syntax check passed it, but I was hoping for an easy syntax error, it looks more complicated now.

Anyway, here's the error:
"Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /home/xxx/public_html/yyy/zzz/contactengine.p hp on line 1"

It's a contact form from css-tricks,...