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Hi all I'm new to programming and this forum and know very little about php. Any help would be greatly appreciated and I look forward to contributing and supporting others as my knowledge increases. I am trying to get a 'counter' php file working on my localhost. When I run the php file in chrome I get the following error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '$result' (T_VARIABLE), expecting ',' or ';' in C:\xampp\htdocs\database\counter.php on line 8 My php file contains the following: <?php require($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]."/database/config/db_config.php"); $connection = @mysql_connect($db_host,$db_user, $db_password) or die("error connecting"); mysql_select_db($db_name, $connection); $query = "SELECT * FROM counter"; echo $query $result = mysql_query($query, $connection) or die(mysql_error()); echo $result $views = mysql_result($result, 0, "num_views"); echo $views $views++; $query = "UPDATE counter SET num_views = $views"; mysql_query($query, $connection) or die(mysql_error()); echo "This page has been viewed ".$views." times."; ?> I created the counter table in phpmyadmin and it has the following details: # Name Type Collation Attributes Null Default Extra Action 1 num_views int(5) UNSIGNED No 0 Change Drop Browse distinct values Any help appreciated. Regards, Guy Brown counter.php