[SOLVED] Parse Error

[magebash]

I am pretty new to php and I get this error with the following script:

<script>
if (navigator.cookieEnabled == 0) {
  document.write("<b><font color='red'">You need to enable cookies for this site to work properly.  Please enable them.</b>");
}
</script>
<form action="index.php" method="POST">
<input type="text" name="word">
</form>
<?php if (isset($_POST['word']))
setcookie("word","$_POST['word']", time()+3600);
die "If you like the look of this word, click the button confirm word.  Otherwise, <a href="index.php">Click Here</a><p><form action="addcloud.php" method="post"><input type="submit" name="continue" value=" Confirm Word "></form>";
?>

It returns with this error:

 

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /home/www/magebash.100webspace.net/classifieds2/index.php on line 10

 

Thanks.

[roopurt18]

Whenever you want to include variables inside of double-quoted strings, enclose the variable in curly brackets:

$name = "Mike";
echo "Hello, {$name}";

Don't be lazy and do it only occasionally.  Do it every time.

 

Also, whichever tutorial or book you are reading has told you that for if-statements where the body is a single line the curly brackets are optional.  This is true.  However, do not leave them off.  Ever.

if(true)
  echo "hi";

Should be

if(true){
  echo "hi";
}

Again, don't be lazy.  Always use them.

 

As for your parse error, look at this line:

die "If you like the look of this word, click the button confirm word.  Otherwise, <a href="

The string effectively ends when it encounters that double quote near the href.  If you want to include double-quotes as part of a double-quoted string, you have to escape them with a backslash.

 

echo "This string contains a \"!"; // <-- note the \"

[magebash]

I changed it to this, but it comes up with the same errors.

<?php if (isset($_POST['word'])) {
setcookie("word","$_POST['word']", time()+3600);
die "If you like the look of this word, click the button confirm word.  Otherwise, <a href='index.php'>Click Here</a><p><form action='addcloud.php' method='post'><input type='submit' name='continue' value=' Confirm Word '></form>";
}
?>

[PHP Monkeh]

setcookie("word","$_POST['word']", time()+3600);

 

remove the " " around $_POST['word'] pretty please

[magebash]

I did that and it comes up with this...

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in /home/www/magebash.100webspace.net/classifieds2/index.php on line 11

[roopurt18]

Try enclosing the string for the die in parens.

 

die("message blah blah");

[magebash]

My code is:

<?php if (isset($_POST['word'])) {
setcookie('word','$_POST['word']',time()+3600);
die("If you like the look of this word, click the button confirm word.  Otherwise, <a href='index.php'>Click Here</a><p><form action='addcloud.php' method='post'><input type='submit' name='continue' value=' Confirm Word '></form>");
}
?>

And it comes up with this:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/www/magebash.100webspace.net/classifieds2/index.php on line 10

[kenrbnsn]

On this line:

<?php
setcookie('word','$_POST['word']',time()+3600);
?>

you were told to remove the double quotes, not to replace them with single quotes. Try:

<?php
setcookie('word',$_POST['word'],time()+3600);
?>

 

Ken

[roopurt18]

setcookie('word','$_POST['

Your single quote which starts the index into the array is ending the single-quoted string.  Think about it like this.  If you start a string with a single-quote, the next single-quote the interpretor finds will end the string.

 

Either do what I originally said, which was to enclose the variable in curly brackets inside of a double-quoted string:

$name = "Mike";
echo "Hello, {$name}!";

 

Or do what PHP Monkeh suggested and remove the quotes around the $_POST variable altogether (which is actually the better solution in this instance):

setcookie('word',$_POST['word'],time()+3600);

[magebash]

I have another problem now.  The script is this.

<?php if(isset($_POST['submit'])) 
setcookie('word',$_POST['word'],time()+3600);
die("If you like the look of this word, click the button confirm word.  Otherwise, <a href='index.php'>Click Here</a><p><form action='addcloud.php' method='post'><input type='submit' name='continue' value=' Confirm Word '></form>");
?>
<script>
if (navigator.cookieEnabled == 0) {
  document.write("<b><font color='red'">You need to enable cookies for this site to work properly.  Please enable them.</b>");
}
</script>
<form action="index.php" method="POST">
<input type="text" name="word">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Post Word">
</form>

 

All that happens is the die function shows up without submitting the form.

[magebash]

nvm I have fixed the problem.  Just a stupid error.

[roopurt18]

Just a stupid error.

Most of them are

[magebash]

Thanks for the help everybody!