parse error when making a form remember last user input

[pandu]

Im trying to make my form remember the last input made by user, so I wrote the following and I get a syntax error on the input line. The error is:

 

Parse error: parse error, expecting `T_STRING' or `T_VARIABLE' or `T_NUM_STRING' in C:\wamp\www\ezsynonym\index.php on line 90

 

                <form id="searchform" method="post" action="index.php">
                <input id="input" name="synonymsearch" type="text" value="<?php echo $_POST['synonymsearch']; ?>" maxlength="400px" />
                </form>

 

TIA

[.josh]

post more of the code around those lines. 

[kaiman]

Try:

 

<?php 
if (isset($_POST['synonymsearch'])) echo { 
     $_POST ['synonymsearch']; 
} 
?>

[.josh]

that only looks to see if the variable is set. At most php would just give a notice.  The error posted here means that somewhere in his code he isn't using quotes properly.  But the code posted in and of itself is fine.  So he needs to look around it.

[scotmcc]

It is possible that I've gone crazy, but the syntax looks a little busted to me:

 

You wrote:

 

<?php 
if (isset($_POST['synonymsearch'])) echo { 
     $_POST ['synonymsearch']; 
} 
?>

 

I think it should be:

<?php 
if (isset($_POST['synonymsearch'])) { 
     echo $_POST ['synonymsearch']; 
} 
?>

 

What do you think?