Need help finding PHP code errors

Elle0000 · #1 (**permalink**) 10-07-06, 05:34 PM

I have written a simple survey form in HTML. I have written the PHP code, but am still getting a parsing error (line 95). I cannot find it and I am sure that there are others.
I also have a really dumb question. When the error tells you on what line the error is, how exactly do you find the line? I have spaces in between lines and have the code separated so that I can read it (but have removed them below). How do you find the beginning and end of a line, and is there an easy way to count lines. Do the spaces count as lines? I must be missing something because as far as I can tell, line 95 is the closing html tag.

Thanx muchly.

PHP Code:


			
 code here

<html>

<head>

<title>All About You!</title>

<style type="text/css">

<!--

.style1 {

color: #333399;

font: bold 24px Arial;

text-align: center;

}

.style2 {

color: #333399;

font: bold 14px Arial;

}

.style5 {

font-size: 16px;

color: #330099;

font-family: Arial;

}

-->

</style>

</head>

<body>

<form action="Form.html" method="get">

<p class="style1">All About You!</p>

<strong><p class="style5"> Thank you for telling us about yourself. Below is your information.

<br>

If any items are incomplete, please hit the back button and complete your submission. </p> </strong>

<br><br>

<?php

if ( $First == "" ) {

$error=true;

echo "<BR> Please enter your first name";

} else { 

echo "Your first name is:  $First."; } 

?>

<br>

<?php

if ( $Last == "" ) {

$error=true;

echo "Please enter your last name";

} else { 

echo "Your last name is:  $Last."; } 

?>

<br>

<?php

if ( $Color== "" ) {

$error=true;

echo "<BR> Please enter your favorite color";

} else { 

echo "Your favorite color is:  $Color.";

?>

<br>

<?php

if ( $Meaning == "" ) {

$error=true;

echo "Please comment on what your favorite color means to you.";

} else { 

echo "What your color means to you:  $Meaning";

?>

<br>

<?php

If ($Gender=="Male") { echo "You indicated that you are male.";

} else {

echo "You indicated that you are female"; 

}

?>

<br><br>

<?php

If ($Ques1=="yes") { echo "You indicated that you are married.";

} else { 

echo "You indicated that you not are married.";

}

?>

<br><br>

<?php

If ($Ques2=="yes"){ echo "You indicated that you are employed.";

} else { 

echo "You indicated that you are not employed"; 

}

?>

<br><br>

<?php

If ($Ques3=="yes"){ echo "You indicated that you do like to travel.";

} else { 

echo "You indicated that you do not like to travel"; 

}

?>

<br>

<input type="Submit" value="BACK" name="Submit">

<br>

<p class="style5"> <strong>Thanks again for your time.</strong> </p>

</form>

</body>

</html>

end code

nova912 · #2 (**permalink**) 10-07-06, 05:36 PM

PHP Code:


			
<?php 

if ( $Color== "" ) { 

$error=true; 

echo "<BR> Please enter your favorite color"; 

} else {  

echo "Your favorite color is:  $Color."; 

?>

PHP Code:


			
<?php 

if ( $Meaning == "" ) { 

$error=true; 

echo "Please comment on what your favorite color means to you."; 

} else {  

echo "What your color means to you:  $Meaning"; 

?>

you need a closing bracket like so

PHP Code:


			
<?php 

if ( $Color== "" ) { 

$error=true; 

echo "<BR> Please enter your favorite color"; 

} else {  

echo "Your favorite color is:  $Color."; 

}

?>

PHP Code:


			
<?php 

if ( $Meaning == "" ) { 

$error=true; 

echo "Please comment on what your favorite color means to you."; 

} else {  

echo "What your color means to you:  $Meaning"; 

}

?>

UnrealEd · #3 (**permalink**) 10-08-06, 03:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Elle0000

I also have a really dumb question. When the error tells you on what line the error is, how exactly do you find the line? I have spaces in between lines and have the code separated so that I can read it (but have removed them below). How do you find the beginning and end of a line, and is there an easy way to count lines. Do the spaces count as lines? I must be missing something because as far as I can tell, line 95 is the closing html tag.

What editor are you using? if you're using adobe dreamweaver, notepad++, zend studios or komodo, you can set an option to display the line numbers.
Yes spaces between lines are counted as seperate lines.

UnrealEd

Elle0000 · #4 (**permalink**) 10-08-06, 01:18 PM

I am a novice taking an online distance learning course. PHP is a foreign language to me. I don't understand how to code. I pieced it together from 10 different books.

I am not lazy. I have spent many nites awake trying to find info that will help me learn. I spent a lot of time looking online for books. I look through all of them daily and scour the Internet for resources.

Did you ever take a foreign language in high school? Did you ever have to read a book in a foreign language?

How can you weed out the incorrect answers on a test if you can't read them? I don't understand the language, let alone know what sorts errors of errors I seek. I need to see the code correctly to have a chance at understanding it. I'm not lazy. I'm clueless.

mab · #5 (**permalink**) 10-08-06, 01:31 PM

The line in red is part of his signature. It is not a comment directed at you, it is directed at the people that ask someone else what is wrong with their own code as the first troubleshooting step they take, without having consulted a programming reference manual first.