unexpected '\"'

[pcw]

Hi, I keep getting this error in the following script:

 

Parse error:  parse error, unexpected '\"' in sb.php on line 23

 

_{function user_online()}

_{

_return;

_{if($online_users != "yes");}

_{open(ONLINE, ">>${root}$online_file") || print "cannot log to online file!";}

_{print ONLINE "$input{'login'}|".time()."\n"; # This is line 23}

_{close ONLINE;}

 

_}

 

This is a translation from PERL to PHP, does anyone know what I have done wrong?

 

Thanks

[premiso]

First up, your functions returns before any processing would be allowed.

 

Second I would read up on PHP's proper syntax as it is different than PERL by far.

 

fopen fwrite fclose are the functions you most likely want to look into to translate this information to PHP from Perl.

[Maq]

Anyway, your function doesn't do anything even if the syntax was correct.  You have return; as the first line so it will go into the function and return right away...

[Mark Baker]

And read up on variable scope within functions.

You're using a lot of variables within the scope of your function that simply aren't defined in any way,

e.g $online_users, ${root}, $online_file, $input