Need help with unexpected T-STRING error

[snoggle]

I'm a newbie and I'm still learning PHP. However this error has me stumped. I've googled, searched the forums, but I can't seem to fix this. I'm sure the fix is obvious, but I so new I really need help. Thanks.

 

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /public_html/send.php on line 4

 

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
 
function valid_email($str)
{
	return ( ! preg_match("/^([a-z0-9\+_\-]+)(\.[a-z0-9\+_\-]+)*@([a-z0-9\-]+\.)+[a-z]{2,6}$/ix", $str)) ? FALSE : TRUE;
}
 
if($_POST['subject']!=""){
	echo 'Dirty Spammer! Your message was NOT sent.';
} else {
 
if( isset($_POST['firstName']) && isset($_POST['lastName']) && isset($_POST['Email']) && valid_email($_POST['Email'])==TRUE && isset($_POST['message']) && strlen($_POST['message'])>15)
{
	$to = '[email protected]';
	$headers = 	'From: '.$_POST['Email'].''. "\r\n" .
			'Reply-To: '.$_POST['Email'].'' . "\r\n" .
			'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
	$subject = "Your Simple AJAX Contact Form";
	$message = htmlspecialchars($_POST['message']);
	$spam = $_POST['subject']; 
 
	if(mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers))
	{//we show the good guy only in one case and the bad one for the rest.
		echo 'Thank you '.$_POST['firstName'].'. Your message was sent.';
		echo '<noscript> <a href="http://www.yourdomain.com">Back to yourdomain.com</a></noscript>';
	}
	else {
		echo "Message not sent.";
		echo "Please make sure you're not running this on localhost and also that you are allowed to run mail() function from your webserver.";
	}
}
else {
	echo "Please make sure you filled in all the required fields, that you entered a valid email and also that your message contains more then 15 characters.";
	echo "<noscript> Use your browser's back button or <a href=\"http://www.yourdomain.com\">click here</a></noscript> to try again.";
}
?>

[premiso]

Becareful when using $ inside of double quotes as it is interpreted.

 

return ( ! preg_match("/^([a-z0-9\+_\-]+)(\.[a-z0-9\+_\-]+)*@([a-z0-9\-]+\.)+[a-z]{2,6}\$/ix", $str)) ? FALSE : TRUE;

 

Try that and see if you get the same errors (note I escaped the $ by adding a \ infront of it.).

[mraza]

<?php
   error_reporting(E_ALL);

   function valid_email($str)
   {
     return ( ! preg_match("/^([a-z0-9\+_\-]+)(\.[a-z0-9\+_\-]+)*@([a-z0-9\-]+\.)+[a-z]{2,6}\$/ix", $str)) ? FALSE : TRUE;
   }

   if(empty($_POST['subject'])){
      echo 'Dirty Spammer! Your message was NOT sent.';
   } else {

   if( isset($_POST['firstName']) && isset($_POST['lastName']) && isset($_POST['Email']) && valid_email($_POST['Email'])==TRUE && isset($_POST['message']) && strlen($_POST['message'])>15)
   {
      $to = '[email protected]';
      $headers =    'From: '.$_POST['Email'].''. "\r\n" .
            'Reply-To: '.$_POST['Email'].'' . "\r\n" .
            'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
      $subject = "Your Simple AJAX Contact Form";
      $message = htmlspecialchars($_POST['message']);
      $spam = $_POST['subject']; 

      if(mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers))
      {//we show the good guy only in one case and the bad one for the rest.
         echo 'Thank you '.$_POST['firstName'].'. Your message was sent.';
         echo '<noscript> <a href="http://www.yourdomain.com">Back to yourdomain.com</a></noscript>';
      }
      else {
         echo "Message not sent.";
         echo "Please make sure you're not running this on localhost and also that you are allowed to run mail() function from your webserver.";
      }
   }
   else {
      echo "Please make sure you filled in all the required fields, that you entered a valid email and also that your message contains more then 15 characters.";
      echo "<noscript> Use your browser's back button or <a href=\"http://www.yourdomain.com\">click here</a></noscript> to try again.";
   }
   }
?>