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anothermacguy · Nov 17, 2000, 10:53 PM

Hello, I'm new to PHP, and I just wanted to try converting a very simple HTML page to PHP. Here is my php page:

<html>
<head>
<title>test</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body bgcolor="#9795AB" link="#CCCC99" vlink="#FFCC99" text="#FFFFFF">
<?php
echo �<table width="100%" border="0">�;
echo � <tr bgcolor="#9999CC"> �;
echo � <td valign="top" height="14" colspan="2">�;
echo � <div align="center"><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Verdana"><b><u&a mp;gt;testing:</u></b></font>/div>�;
echo � </td>�;
echo � </tr>�;
echo � <tr> �;
echo � <td colspan="2" valign="top">�;
echo � <div align="center">�;
echo � <p><a href="www.macnn.com"><font size="+1">MacNN</font></a></p>�;
echo � <p><font size="+1"><a href="www.apple.com">Apple</a></font></p>�;
echo � </div>�;
echo � </td>�;
echo � </tr>�;
echo �</table>�;
?>
</body>
</html>

When I run this, I get the following error:

Parse error: parse error, expecting `','' or `';'' in /Library/WebServer/my_sites/mymacnetwork/test.php on line 1

Can anyone help me with this? Right now, all I want to do is know what I need to do to change an existing html page to php. BTW, I did save the above page as a .php. Thanks in advance.

lonbaker · Nov 18, 2000, 01:58 AM

Well,

You need to either use single quotes in or escape the double quotes. The echo syntax is echo "blahblah";

You are doing echo echo "blah"blah"blah";

So do one of the following:

Escape the quotes inside the function. This will prevent php from parsing the quotes inside the function.

echo �<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\">�;

Or use single quotes:

echo '<table width="100%" border="0">';

Anyway you probably want to read up on the usage of quotes since they can make a huge impact on the way variables and other code are parsed.

[This message has been edited by lonbaker (edited 11-18-2000).]

anothermacguy · Nov 18, 2000, 11:15 AM

Great, thanks a lot Ionbaker. Did you have any suggested sites? I'm in the process of going through the php manual, on php.org.

Thanks again.....anothermacguy

anothermacguy · Nov 18, 2000, 11:27 AM

Actually, Ionbaker, I'm getting the same message. I replaced my original line:

echo �<table width="100%" border="0">�;

with this:

echo '<table width="100%" border="0">';

and this:

echo �<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\">�

but I'm still getting this:

Parse error: parse error, expecting `','' or `';'' in /Library/WebServer/my_sites/mymacnetwork/test.php on line 1

Notice anything else?

lonbaker · Nov 18, 2000, 09:14 PM

Go ahead and e-mail me a copy of the file and let me look at it. lon@mojomonkey.com

Nov 21, 2000, 08:02 PM

I chabged to code to this and everything worked nicely on my machine.

<html>
<head>
<title>test</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body bgcolor="#9795AB" link="#CCCC99" vlink="#FFCC99" text="#FFFFFF">
<?php
echo '<table width="100%" border="0">';
echo ' <tr bgcolor="#9999CC"> ';
echo ' <td valign="top" height="14" colspan="2">';
echo ' <div align="center"><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Verdana"><b><u&a mp;gt;testing:</u></b></font>/div>';
echo ' </td>';
echo ' </tr>';
echo ' <tr> ';
echo ' <td colspan="2" valign="top">';
echo ' <div align="center">';
echo ' <p><a href="www.macnn.com"><font size="+1">MacNN</font></a></p>';
echo ' <p><font size="+1"><a href="www.apple.com">Apple</a></font></p>';
echo ' </div>';
echo ' </td>';
echo ' </tr>';
echo '</table>';
?>
</body>
</html>