Help please - getting Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRIN

**ccnj** · 08-09-2012, 04:15 PM

Hi! I'm trying to build a site for a client and I normally can figure out how to get the PHP pages to work properly but for some reason, I'm having lots of problems getting http://74.54.176.178/~rickett/ (I'm still waiting for her registrar to update DNS records) to give me anything other than pains and problems getting a result other than the above error.
The code I'm using on the page:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office">
<link href="/style.css" media="screen" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>The Elfant Rickett Law Firm</title>
</head>

<body style="background-color: #330B38">

<br />
<table style="width: 80%" cellspacing="4" cellpadding="6" align="center" class="style1">
<tr>
<td colspan="2" align="center"><?php include "header.htm";?>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="links" valign="top">
<td style="width: 150px"><br />
<br /><?php include "nav.htm";?>
</td>
<td><?php include "main.htm";?>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" align="center" class="footer"><?php include "footer.htm";?></td>
</tr>
</table>
<br />
</body>

</html>

Any help you can provide for me would be GREATLY appreciated!

Thanks so much,
Jennifer

**weegillis** · 08-09-2012, 07:16 PM

The HTML above doesn't show enough. We need to see the modules. You might look for incomplete string concatenations. PHP is seeing unexpected tokens such as a " with no leading . or possibly an unescaped " within a quoted expression.

Eg. "<a class="link" href="somepage.html">Some page</a>"

should look like,

"<a class=\"link\" href=\"somepage.html\">Some page</a>".

Or possibly something like this,

"<a class=\"link\" href=\"" . $somepage"\">Some page</a>"

Notice the missing dot after $somepage ?

**ccnj** · 08-10-2012, 09:54 AM

Thank you for your reply. I have to say I am a bit confused by it though -- I am only using PHP to call other HTML pages, no programming otherwise. Usually all I need to do is have the include tag and everything works. Now, I can't. BTW, I had to change the link on the site above to http://localbizmkt.com/elfantrickettlawyers/index.php. For your reference, the page is supposed to look like http://localbizmkt.com/elfantrickettlawyers/mockup.htm only broken into tables for the PHP include.

Thanks!
Jennifer

**weegillis** · 08-10-2012, 04:03 PM

So what you're saying is that there is no PHP in the modules? This is the only PHP? Then I guess we have to look for something simple in this page. Try entering a space after the ';' just before '?>', or even just removing the semi-colon (last statement doesn't need one, afaik). I would still leave a space before the closing tag.

**DaveSawers** · 08-11-2012, 07:34 AM

The error can easily be in one of the included files. Since you haven't shown these, it's hard to tell what's going on.

**ccnj** · 08-12-2012, 07:10 PM

I don't know why, but after I took out header.htm and put the image onto the actual php page instead of including it, I got the page to show. Makes NO sense to me, but thank you so much for your help!

Jennifer

**weegillis** · 08-12-2012, 07:20 PM

Glad you got it fixed. @ccnj, shall we close this thread, now that nothing remains to be discussed? We can re-open it later if you have more to add.

**DaveSawers** · 08-13-2012, 06:04 AM

Originally Posted by ccnj

I don't know why, but after I took out header.htm and put the image onto the actual php page instead of including it, I got the page to show. Makes NO sense to me, but thank you so much for your help!

Jennifer

Because the error was in header.hm.

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