Noob dumb question on elseif

[spillage]

Ok sat down for another night of banging my head against the wall and drinking some good old malt.

All I am after is for my php page to echo a simple welcome message and then if nothing is submitted

an error message is echoed or correct data is submitted and a well done message is echoed.

 

but if I try:

if ($friend==0)
{
echo "welcome please provide your friends email below.";
}


elseif (!eregi('^[[:alnum:]][a-z0-9_\.\-]*@[a-z0-9\.\-]+\.[a-z]{2,4}$',
            stripslashes(trim($friend))))
            {
			echo "<p>Please enter your friends valid email below:";
			echo '</br>';
		}

    else

           {
   	           echo "<p>Thank you</p>";
               echo "<p>Your email has been submitted</p>";
           echo "<p>Please submit another email or close your browser.</p></br>";
           fwrite ($fp,$output, strlen($output));
               fclose($fp);
           }

 

All that is echoed is the welcome bit even if email is incorrect.

If I remove the if ($friend==0) bit and just have if (!eregi***** then the

please enter your friends valid email shows straight away on the page.

 

If anyone can see my stupid mistake then please rub my nose in it.

 

Thanks

 

Spill

[ublapach]

where your else if line is there needs to be else if { then the next if statement and make sure you close it

[spillage]

sorry being really dumb any chance you could show the adjustment on my code as have tried this all ways without success.

 

cheers

[ublapach]

if ($friend==0)
{
echo "welcome please provide your friends email below.";
}


else if {(!eregi('^[[:alnum:]][a-z0-9_\.\-]*@[a-z0-9\.\-]+\.[a-z]{2,4}$',
            stripslashes(trim($friend))))
            
			echo "<p>Please enter your friends valid email below:";
			echo '</br>';
		}

    else

           {
   	           echo "<p>Thank you</p>";
               echo "<p>Your email has been submitted</p>";
           echo "<p>Please submit another email or close your browser.</p></br>";
           fwrite ($fp,$output, strlen($output));
               fclose($fp);
           }

[spillage]

for some reason that just throws up an error on the elseif line. Have included all the code incase it helps.

<?php
session_start();
if (isset($_POST['email'])) {
  $_SESSION['email']=$_POST['email'];
}
$cust = $_SESSION['email'];
$DOCUMENT_ROOT=$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];

$friend=$_POST["address"];
$output= $cust."\t".$friend."\r\n";
echo "Your email is: ".$cust;
@ $fp= fopen ("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/rcfriend.txt",'a+');
if ($friend==0)
{
echo "welcome please provide your friends email below.";
}


if ($friend==0)
{
echo "welcome please provide your friends email below.";
}


else if {(!eregi('^[[:alnum:]][a-z0-9_\.\-]*@[a-z0-9\.\-]+\.[a-z]{2,4}$',
            stripslashes(trim($friend))))
            
			echo "<p>Please enter your friends valid email below:";
			echo '</br>';
		}

    else

           {
   	           echo "<p>Thank you</p>";
               echo "<p>Your email has been submitted</p>";
           echo "<p>Please submit another email or close your browser.</p></br>";
           fwrite ($fp,$output, strlen($output));
               fclose($fp);
           }
?>

[ublapach]

whats the error

 

[ublapach]

you have this line in there twice

 

 

if ($friend==0)
{
echo "welcome please provide your friends email below.";
}

[spillage]

error is

 

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '{', expecting '(' in C:\wamp\www\mail01.php on line 44

 

cheers

[ublapach]

there isnt 44 lines of code