note 29243 deleted from faq by tix

This may seem trivial or common knowledge, but it was something that I learned the hard way as a new PHP user. When entering PHP code into an HTML document, the proper syntax is: <?php . . . some php code . . . ?> The following will cause an "Unexpected T_FUNCTION" error when you load the HTML document into a browser: <? php . . . some php code . . . ?> IE: "<?php" must be entered WITHOUT SPACES! After spending more than 6 hours of checking every ;, checking syntax of every function and function call, as well as making sure all of the proper "require" and "include" were in place, I finally noticed that single space. I removed the space, and wallah! . . . the "Unexpected T_FUNCTION" error dissapeared and everthing worked dandy.