jshpik1 Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 Hello, I'm having some difficulty, this is for a class, however the book seems to be using an old version of PHP or something as I continue to get this error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in Location On My Machine\xampp\htdocs\strings.php on line 17 Here's the code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C// DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/ xhtml1-transitional.dtd”> <html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/ xhtml” xml:lang=”en” lang=”en”> <head> <meta http-equiv=”content-type” content=”text/html; charset= iso-8859-1” /> <title>Strings</title> </head> <body> <?php # Script 1.6 - strings.php $first_name = ‘Haruki’; $last_name = ‘Murakami’; $book = ‘Kafka on the Shore’; echo “<p>The book <em>$book</em> was written by $first_name $last_name.</p>”; ?> </body> </html> I have PHP version 5.3.1 installed. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/221814-variable-string-syntax/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFMaBiSmAd Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 All of the quotes in what you posted appear to be smart/curly quotes and won't work in HTML tags or in php code. You need to use straight quotes - " or ' in HTML tags and in php code. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/221814-variable-string-syntax/#findComment-1147906 Share on other sites More sharing options...
desjardins2010 Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 100% agree, only thing wrong is your '' Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/221814-variable-string-syntax/#findComment-1147910 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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