Getting a parse error and I don't know why

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /clientdata/clients/c/a/calculated.com.au/www/cbsemail.php on line 5

[php]<?php
if(isset($_POST[‘email’])) {

/* EDIT THE 2 LINES BELOW AS REQUIRED */
$email_to = “[email protected]”;
$email_subject = “Calculated Website enquiry”;

function died($error) {
    // your error code can go here
    echo "We are very sorry, but there were error(s) found with the form you submitted. ";
    echo "These errors appear below.<br /><br />";
    echo $error."<br /><br />";
    echo "Please go back and fix these errors.<br /><br />";
    die();
}
 
// validation expected data exists
if(!isset($_POST['first_name']) ||
    !isset($_POST['last_name']) ||
	!isset($_POST['business_name']) ||
    !isset($_POST['email']) ||
    !isset($_POST['telephone']) ||
    !isset($_POST['comments'])) {
    died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.');       
}
 
$first_name = $_POST['first_name']; // required
$last_name = $_POST['last_name']; // required
$business_name = $_POST['business_name']; // required
$email_from = $_POST['email']; // required
$telephone = $_POST['telephone']; // not required
$comments = $_POST['comments']; // required
 
$error_message = "";
$email_exp = '/^[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}$/';

if(!preg_match($email_exp,$email_from)) {
$error_message .= ‘The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.
’;
}
$string_exp = “/^[A-Za-z .’-]+$/”;
if(!preg_match($string_exp,$first_name)) {
$error_message .= ‘The First Name you entered does not appear to be valid.
’;
}
if(!preg_match($string_exp,$last_name)) {
$error_message .= ‘The Last Name you entered does not appear to be valid.
’;
}
if(!preg_match($string_exp,$business_name)) {
$error_message .= ‘The Business Name you entered does not appear to be valid.
’;
}
if(strlen($comments) < 2) {
$error_message .= ‘The Comments you entered do not appear to be valid.
’;
}
if(strlen($error_message) > 0) {
died($error_message);
}
$email_message = “Form details below.\n\n”;

function clean_string($string) {
  $bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");
  return str_replace($bad,"",$string);
}
 
$email_message .= "First Name: ".clean_string($first_name)."\n";
$email_message .= "Last Name: ".clean_string($last_name)."\n";
$email_message .= "Business Name: ".clean_string($business_name)."\n";
$email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."\n";
$email_message .= "Telephone: ".clean_string($telephone)."\n";
$email_message .= "Comments: ".clean_string($comments)."\n";

// create email headers
$headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n".
'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" .
‘X-Mailer: PHP/’ . phpversion();
@mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);
?>

Thank you for contacting us. We will be in touch with you very soon.

<?php } ?>[/php]

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Is the code you posted from “cbsemail.php” ? As there isn’t a problem around line 5

line 5 is only assigning to a variable and is done right, there should not be an error like smokey said.

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