PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'isset' (T_ISSET),

[ruben0123]

Hi all,

 

I hope someone can pinpoint hte problem for me because I have stared myself blind and can't find it.

I get the following error: 

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'isset' (T_ISSET), expecting '(' in /public/sites/www.studiovsf.nl/contact.php on line 20

 

So I know that somewhere around linw 20 < if (!$errors) { > there is a '(' missing in the code. but how much I try I cant find where it needs to go.

 

The code is listed under here. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

<?php

//Retrieve form data.
//GET - user submitted data using AJAX
//POST - in case user does not support javascript, well use POST instead
$name = ($_GET['name']) ? $_GET['name'] : $_POST['name'];
$email = ($_GET['email']) ?$_GET['email'] : $_POST['email'];
$comment = ($_GET['comment']) ?$_GET['comment'] : $_POST['comment'];

//flag to indicate which method it uses. If POST set it to 1

if ($_POST) $post=1;

//Simple server side validation for POST data, of course, you should validate the email
if (!$name) $errors[count($errors)] = 'Please enter your name.';
if (!$email) $errors[count($errors)] = 'Please enter your email.';
if (!$comment) $errors[count($errors)] = 'Please enter your comment.';

//if the errors array is empty, send the mail
if (!$errors) {

  //recipient - replace your email here
  $to = 'info@studiovsf.nl';
  //sender - from the form
  $from = $name . ' <' . $email . '>';

  //subject and the html message
  $subject = 'Message from ' . $name;
  $message = 'Name: ' . $name . '<br/><br/>
           Email: ' . $email . '<br/><br/>
           Message: ' . nl2br($comment) . '<br/>';

  //send the mail
  $result = sendmail($to, $subject, $message, $from);

  //if POST was used, display the message straight away
  if ($_POST) {
    if ($result) echo 'Dank u wel! We hebben uw bericht ontvangen.';
    else echo 'Sorry, er ging iets fout. Probeer het later nog eens.';

  //else if GET was used, return the boolean value so that
  //ajax script can react accordingly
  //1 means success, 0 means failed
  } else {
    echo $result;
  }

//if the errors array has values
} else {
  //display the errors message
  for ($i=0; $i<count($errors); $i++) echo $errors[$i] . '<br/>';
  echo '<a href="contact.html">Back</a>';
  exit;
}


//Simple mail function with HTML header
function sendmail($to, $subject, $message, $from) {
  $headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
  $headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" . "\r\n";
  $headers .= 'From: ' . $from . "\r\n";

  $result = mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);

  if ($result) return 1;
  else return 0;
}

?>

[dalecosp]

Well, either you posted the wrong code, or you are reading the wrong error_log | screen ouput, or you need to get some sleep...

 

There's no call to isset() in your snippet, and no include and no require, so ...

 

(Furthermore, your code, as posted, parses without issue...)

[ruben0123]

Thanks dale,

 

you are right, there was a descrepancy between local and remote code.

Remote code had the line if isset(!$errors) { in it on line 20 because I was trying to get rid of an other error message being: 

Notice: Undefined variable: errors in /public/sites/www.studiovsf.nl/contact.php on line 20

 

And as far as I understood that should be fixed by using the isset(xxxxx) method.

For the record, I'm a software programmer, but I'm not really into PHP, that's just for my hobby website. :-)

 

Any thoughts on the above issue?

Thank in advance.

 

Ruben

[ruben0123]

I found it, after the hint from Dale,

 

I replaced the code with: if (!(isset($errors))) {  and now it workls like a charm.

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