Re: [PHP] Newbie ?: why this error?
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 to database. Please try again later.;
exit;
}
BTW, you can reduce that block down to a single line:
$db = mysql_connect (hostname, user, password) or die(Error: Could
not connect to database. Please try again later.);
See http://php.net/die for more info.
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Re: [PHP] Newbie ?: why this error?
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 to a single line:
$db = mysql_connect (hostname, user, password) or die(Error: Could
not connect to database. Please try again later.);
echo the error.
$db = mysql_connect (hostname, user, password);
echo mysql_errno().: .mysql_error().BR;
Then you will know what the problem is.
BTW if you are using the Dreamweaver extension that shows you the
includes, get rid of it. It will rewrite your includes where they are
all the same.
Gary
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RE: [PHP] Newbie ?: why this error?
I've been stuck on this all afternoon. The opening PHP tag is what's on line 8. You may have disabled the short PHP tags - namely, ? ?. These tags conflict with XML specs. Try ?php instead of ? Jason -- Jason Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Developer, Melbourne IT Work now, freak later! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [PHP] Newbie ?: why this error?
Hi Vicki,
try this:
?
if (!$SampFirstName || !$SampLastName || !$SampEmail)
{
echo You have not entered all the required information. br; #-- you
need a semi colon here and
echo Please go back and try again.; #-- another echo here.
exit;
}
you could also do this:
?
if (!$SampFirstName || !$SampLastName || !$SampEmail)
{
echo You have not entered all the required information. br Please go back
and try again.;
exit;
}
Jack
-Original Message-
From: Vicki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 9:52 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PHP] Newbie ?: why this error?
Not only am I new to PHP, I'm new to programming altogether. I'm trying
to take it step by step, and my first big experiment was the script
below, used to enter info from a form into a mySQL database. I get the
following error message when it runs:
Parse error: parse error, expecting `','' or `';'' in
/www/ideasforimages/request_sample.php on line 8
I've been stuck on this all afternoon. The opening PHP tag is what's on
line 8. I've run other simple scripts with the same tag, so it doesn't
seem to be a problem with the server set-up or application. Any help
would be greatly appreciated!
Vicki
Here's the the first part of the script in question:
html
head
titleSample Request Results/title
/head
body
pThank you for requesting a sample. Here it is./p
?
if (!$SampFirstName || !$SampLastName || !$SampEmail)
{
echo You have not entered all the required information. br
Please go back and try again.;
exit;
}
$SampFirstName = addslashes ($SampFirstName);
$SampLastName = addslashes ($SampLastName) ;
$SampEmail = addslashes ($SampEmail);
$db = mysql_connect (hostname, user, password);
if (!$db)
{
echo Error: Could not connect to database. Please try again later.;
exit;
}
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Re: [PHP] Newbie ?: why this error?
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 immediately following the code block:
$SampFirstName = addslashes ($SampFirstName);
$SampLastName = addslashes ($SampLastName) ;
$SampEmail = addslashes ($SampEmail);
$db = mysql_connect (hostname, user, password);
if (!$db)
{
echo Error: Could not connect to database. Please try again later.;
exit;
}
I'll start looking at these lines more closely now. Thanks for the help.
I guess I was taking those error messages too literally and looking for
the problem in the wrong place.
Vicki
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jack Dempsey) wrote:
Hi Vicki,
try this:
?
if (!$SampFirstName || !$SampLastName || !$SampEmail)
{
echo You have not entered all the required information. br; #-- you
need a semi colon here and
echo Please go back and try again.; #-- another echo here.
exit;
}
you could also do this:
?
if (!$SampFirstName || !$SampLastName || !$SampEmail)
{
echo You have not entered all the required information. br Please go back
and try again.;
exit;
}
Jack
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Re: [PHP] Newbie ?: why this error?
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_connect (hostname, user, password) or die(Error: Could
not connect to database. Please try again later.);
See http://php.net/die for more info.
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CC
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