elementary PHP Script Help

I know very little about php scripting (lets go with just about nothing other than basic syntax; I'm just experimenting here) so this might not even work. Basically I am going to write a few variables at the top of a page, $style determining the wrapper includes (heavy html formatting around each block of text), $paragraph0-4 containing the paragraph strings and any additional formatting. The values of $paragraph0-4 are put into PARarray and the PARarray paragraphs are then printed without me having to do much.
The only bad part is it's not working.

For some reason, it comes across my for loop and calls it "unexpected". Since this comes after my array declaration, I'm guessing maybe there's a syntax error there, but I can't find it.

Any help would be great, and again, sorry if this post is just sad in its ametuerity

<?
//$style is set to either "article" or "box" depending on the content type
//$paragraph is the paragraph content to be used in the array
//
//THIS PART GOES IN FILE (move later)
$paragraph0 = "text of paragraph 1.";
$paragraph1 = "Well here's paragraph 1";
$paragraph2 = "Blahrdidy blardity paragraph 2";
$paragraph3 = "Blahrdidy blardity paragraph 3";
$paragraph4 = "Blahrdidy blardity paragraph 4";
//puts the value of the paragraph string variables into an array known as:
//$PARarray['PARarray'][i]
$PARarray = array('PARarray' => array(0 => $paragraph0, $paragraph1, $paragraph2, $paragraph3, $paragraph4));
//
//END OF FILE PART
//
//this part prints out the values of each array value, calling an html wrapper for each
//based on $style and $image
//the name of the wrapper will be $style_wrapper.php i.e. box_wrapper.php
(for $i=0; $i<4; $i++)
{
//include the top part of the specific wrapper
require("$style_wrapper_top.php");
//output the text for this paragraph
print("$PARarray['PARarray'][$i]");
//include the bottom part of the specific wrapper (includes spacing separation cell)
require("$style_wrapper_top.php");
}
?>

Code (markup):

 

//  The easiest way to build an array for this...
//  $array_name[] = your_data;    this creates an array named $array_name and 
//  assigns your_data to the first element. When a key to the array isn't
//  specifieds, as in [], the PHP assigns a 0, or if it's not the first one then
//  whichever number is next. in this example it would be 1.
//
//  So to reference this value, if your_data was this first item added to the array you would:
//
//  echo $array_name[0];
//
//  But since it doesn't appear you have a need to call a particular item out of the array
//  we don't need to worry about keeping track of what the key is for each item.
//
//  Which all comes down to this.
//
//  $paragraph_arr[] = "text of paragraph 1.";
//  $paragraph_arr[] = "Well here's paragraph 1";
//  $paragraph_arr[] = "Blahrdidy blardity paragraph 2";
//  $paragraph_arr[] = "Blahrdidy blardity paragraph 3";
//  $paragraph_arr[] = "Blahrdidy blardity paragraph 4";
//
//  You have created an array with 5 elements or items.
//
//  To loop through an array use PHP's foreach loop instead of a for loop.
//
//  foreach ( $array_name as $key => $value ) {  your code }
//  
//
//  in our example,
//
//  foreach ( $paragraph_arr as $key => $value )
//  {
//       echo "$key $value<br>";
//  }
//
//  would output
//  
//  0 text of
//  1 Well
//  2 blah...2
//  3 blah...3
//  4 blah...4
//
//  you could also
//
//    foreach ( $paragraph_arr as $value ) { your code }
//
//  and just not have access to the key, it you don't need it.
// 
//  For your loop it would be 
//
//  foreach ( $paragraph_arr as $value )
//  {
//       echo top_part_box();
//       echo "$value<br>";         //  this is your paragraph
//       echo bottom_part_box();
//  }
//
//  And instead of using a seperate file you could add these functions to your main file.
//
//  function top_part_box()
//  {
//     return "This is the top part<br>";
//  }
//  
//  function bottom_part_box()
//  {
//     return "This is the bottom part<br><br>";
//  }
//
//  and add functions for whatever different top and bottom flavors you want and call accordingly.
//
//  So final code would be...


<?php

  $paragraph_arr[] = "text of paragraph 1.";
  $paragraph_arr[] = "Well here's paragraph 1";
  $paragraph_arr[] = "Blahrdidy blardity paragraph 2";
  $paragraph_arr[] = "Blahrdidy blardity paragraph 3";
  $paragraph_arr[] = "Blahrdidy blardity paragraph 4";

  foreach ( $paragraph_arr as $value )
  {
       echo top_part_box();
       echo "$value<br>";                //  this would be your paragraph
       echo bottom_part_box();
  }

  function top_part_box()
  {
     return "This is the top part<br>";
  }

  function bottom_part_box()
  {
     return "This is the bottom part<br><br>";
  }

?>

PHP:

I've posted the code here:

http://www.tropicrentals.com/test.php

Use http://www.php.net as a reference. Most everything you need to know right now can be found there.

 

Wow - that was amazingly generous of you!

Thank you for taking the time to help me!

 

No problem at all. Glad to help out.