Re: [PHP] Newbie ?: why this error?

2001-09-05 Thread Gary
Cc Zona wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vicki) wrote: > > >> $db = mysql_connect ("hostname", "user", "password"); >> >>if (!$db) >>{ >>echo "Error: Could not connect to database. Please try again later."; >>exit; >>} >> > > BTW, you can reduce that block down

Re: [PHP] Newbie ?: why this error?

2001-09-05 Thread Vicki
That's good to know. Thanks! Vicki In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cc Zona) wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vicki) wrote: > > > $db = mysql_connect ("hostname", "user", "password"); > > > > if (!$db) > > { > > echo "Error: Could not connect

Re: [PHP] Newbie ?: why this error?

2001-09-04 Thread CC Zona
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vicki) wrote: > $db = mysql_connect ("hostname", "user", "password"); > > if (!$db) > { > echo "Error: Could not connect to database. Please try again later."; > exit; > } BTW, you can reduce that block down to a single line: $db = mysql_con

Re: [PHP] Newbie ?: why this error?

2001-09-04 Thread Vicki
Well this is progress! My sloppy semicolons seem to have been the problem. The error message has now moved down to line 14, which in Dreamweaver 4 is the closing "}" of that code block. Since the line numbers in the error messages don't seem to be exact, the problem is probably in the lines im

RE: [PHP] Newbie ?: why this error?

2001-09-04 Thread Jack Dempsey
PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 9:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Newbie ?: why this error? Not only am I new to PHP, I'm new to programming altogether. I'm trying to take it step by step, and my first big experiment was the script below, used to enter info from a f

RE: [PHP] Newbie ?: why this error?

2001-09-04 Thread Jason Murray
> I've been stuck on this all afternoon. The opening PHP tag is > what's on line 8. You may have disabled the "short" PHP tags - namely, . These tags conflict with XML specs. Try http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PHP] Newbie ?: why this error?

2001-09-04 Thread Vicki
Not only am I new to PHP, I'm new to programming altogether. I'm trying to take it step by step, and my first big experiment was the script below, used to enter info from a form into a mySQL database. I get the following error message when it runs: Parse error: parse error, expecting `','' or