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Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ (why?)

Aug 7th, 2006 08:26
Ted Kac, Josef Polách, Greg M., Brant Messenger,

Check that your braces " { " are all closed " } " properly.

This code (below) generates this error, and indicates a line number at 
the end of the PHP source (line 2673 for me)  the source is only about 
2669 lines long.

<?php

if (strlen($HTTP_GET_VARS['color']) <= '') {
	echo "Option A";
}else{
	echo "Option B";
?>

The problem is that the else statement's bracket " { " isn't closed.

<?php

if (strlen($HTTP_GET_VARS['color']) <= '') {
	echo "Option A";
}else{
	echo "Option B";
} ?>                           <--------THIS LINE added " { "

So check that your braces are closed, and happy coding.

Greg.

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I had the same problem. There was unclosed if(): 
Missing endif; caused this error message. 

Josef

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Or.. 

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If you don't find any braces open look for a block echo..
ie..

echo <<<HERE

HERE;

if you have blank space around the 'HERE' values you could get the 
same error.

For example:  

echo <<<HERE

     HERE;

will probably give you the same error.

Kudos!

Tedkac

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