Strange Syntactical Error

Beginners - Learning PHP
#1

Hi There,
I’m working through an example from Larry Ullman’s PHP Visual Quickstart Guide and am getting a syntax error and I don’t know why. Here’s the problematic code:

[php]
if (empty($_POST[‘email’])) {
print ‘

Please enter your email address.

’;
$okay = FALSE;
}
[/php]

I’ve typed this directly from the book and it looks fine to me, but I’m still getting a syntax error on the first line. Any ideas? Thanks,
Bill

#2

It works fine for me…

Since you sound like you’re just learning PHP, perhaps you didn’t put the php tags around it like this?

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

Please enter your email address.

’;
$okay = FALSE;
}
?>[/php]
#3

A good ide will tell you what line your errors are on.

#4

what is the eror message?

#5

Here is the complete code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Registration Results</title>

<style type="text/css" media="screen">
.error {color: red;}
</style>

</head>


<body>

<h2>Registration Results</h2>

<?php // Script 6.2 - handle_reg.php

/* this script handles 8 values from register.html:
email, password, confirm, month, day, year, color, submit */

// Flag Variable to track success

$okay = TRUE

// Validate the email address

if (empty($_POST['email'])) {
print '<p class="error">Please enter your email address.</p>';
$okay = FALSE;
}

// Validate the password

if (empty($_POST['password'])) {
print '<p class="error">Please enter your password.</p>';
$okay = FALSE;
}

// If there are no errors, print a success message

if ($okay) {
print '<p>You have successfully registered.</p>';
}

?>

</body>
</html>

The error message is: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘if’ (T_IF) in C:\wamp\www\php\handle_reg.php on line 29

and line 29 is if (empty($_POST[‘email’])) {

Thanks so much for your input on this. I’m trying to truck through this book and this exercise has been quite an obstacle for some reason.
Bill

#6

Line 25 is missing the semi colon
[php]$okay = TRUE <—[/php]
should be
[php]$okay = TRUE;[/php]

That is why you get an unexpected if on the next line

#7

Thanks much! Now I’ve learned that the error may not necessarily be on the line the IDE says it is but rather directly before or after it. Cheers!

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