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 to database. Please

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 to a single line: $db =

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 ?php instead of ? Jason -- Jason Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Developer, Melbourne IT Work now, freak later!

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

2001-09-04 Thread Jack Dempsey
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 ||

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

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_connect (hostname,