what is wrong?

[zirgs]

Hi there can anyoneplease chek my code and say why php is displaying this error
[!--quoteo--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--]Parse error: parse error, unexpected '{', expecting '(' in G:\www\Apache2\public\admin\add.php on line 14[/quote]
Code:
[!--quoteo--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--]<?php

$db_username = "*****";
$db_pasword = "*****";
$db_host = "******";
$db = "news";
@mysql_connect($db_host, $db_username, $db_pasword) or die("Can't connect to database!");
@mysql_select_db($db) or die("Can't select database!");

if ( $_POST[title] == "" || $_POST[date] == "" )
{
echo "Some fields were left blank!";
}
elseif { $_POST[new] == "" }
{
echo "You didn't entered the new!";
}
else
{
$query="INSERT INTO news (title,date,new,short_news) VALUES ('$_POST[title]','$_POST[date]','$_POST[new]','$_POST[short_new]')";
if(!mysql_db_query($db,$query)) die(mysql_error());
echo "News added succesfully!";
}

?>
[/quote]
thanks!

[ober]

elseif { $_POST[new] == "" }

You're using {} instead of ().

[zirgs]

oh ... [img src=\"style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/laugh.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\":laugh:\" border=\"0\" alt=\"laugh.gif\" /] [img src=\"style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/laugh.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\":laugh:\" border=\"0\" alt=\"laugh.gif\" /] [img src=\"style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/laugh.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\":laugh:\" border=\"0\" alt=\"laugh.gif\" /] ... dumb ass me ... but now i'm getting this error
[!--quoteo--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--]
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ECHO in G:\www\Apache2\public\admin\add.php on line 12[/quote]
no sense to me what is t_echo ... ? any help another time?

[ober]

$_POST[title]

should be:
$_POST['title']

And the same with the rest of them. You need quotes.

[zirgs]

i thought that it's not obligatory... but it's something in this line i think because it's 12 line
[!--quoteo--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--]echo "Some fields were left blank!";[/quote]
sorry for so much questions but i really want to figure it out :)

[ober]

You're getting the error on that line because it expects something else to be closed before that.

Post your most recent code again.

[zirgs]

[!--quoteo--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--] <?php

$db_username = "*****";
$db_pasword = "*****";
$db_host = "******";
$db = "news";
@mysql_connect($db_host, $db_username, $db_pasword) or die("Can't connect to database!");
@mysql_select_db($db) or die("Can't select database!");

if ( $_POST['title'] == "" || $_POST['date'] == "" )
(
echo "Some fields were left blank!";
)
elseif ( $_POST['new'] == "" )
(
echo "You didn't entered the new!";
)
else
(
$query="INSERT INTO news (title,date,new,short_news) VALUES ('$_POST['title']','$_POST['date']','$_POST['new']','$_POST['short_new']')";
if(!mysql_db_query($db,$query)) die(mysql_error());
echo "News added succesfully!";
)

?>[/quote]

[ober]

Whoa whoa whoa... change it to this:
[code]
if ( $_POST['title'] == "" || $_POST['date'] == "" )
{
echo "Some fields were left blank!";
}
elseif ( $_POST['new'] == "" )
{
echo "You didn't entered the new!";
}
else
{
$query="INSERT INTO news (title,date,new,short_news) VALUES ('$_POST['title']','$_POST['date']','$_POST['new']','$_POST['short_new']')";
if(!mysql_db_query($db,$query)) die(mysql_error());
echo "News added succesfully!";
}

?>[/code]

Parenthesis around the evaluation statement, brackets around the if contents.

[zirgs]

thanks for the advices i've just realised that it was strupid to first do connection to database and then check for empty fields ... i've made first check and then connection and query ... and no errors [img src=\"style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/laugh.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\":laugh:\" border=\"0\" alt=\"laugh.gif\" /]
cheers!