RE: [PHP] Parse Error... how to fix?
| From: | Ford, Mike | Date: | Thu, 16 Dec 2004 18:19:43 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Parse Error... how to fix? | ||
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On 16 December 2004 17:39, GH wrote:
> Hi All...
> Got a problem... here is the error: Parse error: parse error,
> expecting
T_STRING' or T_VARIABLE' or
> `T_NUM_STRING' in
> /var/www/html/ahrc_computerclub/ahrc_computerclub.php on line 42... I
> am not sure on how to fix it...
>
> line 42 is: "<TITLE> $language['program_name'] </TITLE>\n"
> .
"<TITLE> {$language['program_name']} </TITLE>\n" .
But:
>
> function printHeader(){
> echo "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0
> Transitional//EN\"\n"
.
>
> "\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd\"><HTML>\n"
> .
> "<HEAD>\n" .
> "<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\" >\n" .
> "<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Gary H\">\n" .
> "<meta name=\"keywords\" content=\"\" >\n" .
> "<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1\">\n" .
> "<TITLE> $language['program_name'] </TITLE>\n" .
> "</HEAD>\n".
> "<BODY>\n";
This is messy and somewhat unreadable. I would suggest either a heredoc:
function printHeader(){
echo <<<HEAD
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd\">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<meta name="description" content="" >
<meta name="author" content="Gary H">
<meta name="keywords" content="" >
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<TITLE> {$language['program_name']} </TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
HEAD;
}
or escaping from PHP into raw HTML:
function printHeader(){
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd\">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<meta name="description" content="" >
<meta name="author" content="Gary H">
<meta name="keywords" content="" >
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<TITLE> <?php echo $language['program_name'] ?> </TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<?php
}