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[manicleek]

Whever I try and run a page I get the error message


Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in C:\Documents and Settings\newuser\My Documents\My Webs\php - marinas\index_copy.php on line 344


The line in question currently looks like:


echo "<a href="udetails.php?marina=$latestmarina">$latestname</a> - $latestcountry<br>";


have tried messing around with it in several ways can anyone tell me what is missing to make it work

 

[nawlej]

Try:

echo "<a href=\"udetails.php?marina=$latestmarina\">$latestname</a> - $latestcountry<br>";

Or this should work too:

echo '<a href="udetails.php?marina=$latestmarina">$latestname</a> - $latestcountry<br>';

You have to escape any quoatation mark you use as a delimiter in a string.


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[Vragabond]

Won't the second example result in not-parsing the variables but rather just printing them out? Second example should look like this:

echo '<a href="udetails.php?marina=' . $latestmarina . '">' . $latestname . '</a> -' . $latestcountry . '<br />';

 

[manicleek]

Thanks for that

The first code worked properly, the second one worked but just printed $marinaname etc in the sentence rather than the contents of that variable

 

[nawlej]

thats right......concatenate using dots.

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[morse]--... ...--[/morse], Eric.