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PHP Error " unexpected T_STRING " , please help !

Discussion in 'PHP' started by FR3@K, Oct 7, 2007.

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  1. FR3@K

    FR3@K Banned

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    #21
    wait.. one more thing.. can you teach me how to do line breaks like this:
    
<?php 
      statement 
  statement
          statement
?>
    Code (markup):
    can anyone teach me to do that?
     
    FR3@K, Oct 7, 2007 IP
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    #22
    Not quite sure what you mean! what exactly are you trying to do?
     
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    #23
    not trying to do anything..
    like chikens wrote the code in a format , line breaking..
    i want to learn where to give spaces..
    
<?php 
  $thisPage="Home"; 
?>
<html>
  <head>......</head>
  <body>

  <?php 
    if ($thisPage!="Home") {
      echo "<div class=\"footer\"> 
      <a href='javascript:history.go(-1)'> [ Back ]</a> 
      </div>"; 
    }
  ?>

  </body>
</html>
    Code (markup):
    look at this code.. he gave spaces before writing the code..
    i want to learn this thing.
     
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    #24
    Oh I see.. He is just formatting the echo statement across several lines. If you don't end the statement with a ; PHP will keep reading the next line as if it were part of the same statement.
     
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    #25
    what about spaces before the coding like " echo "<div class=\"footer\"> "
     
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    #26
    oh, he's formatting the block of code to make it easy to read. for example:

    
<?php

   for($i=0;$i<10;++$i)
   {
       if ($i == 4)
       {
           echo "here's 4!";
           $i++;
       }
       echo $i;
   }

?>
    PHP:
    Do you see what I mean? Indenting makes the code easy to see where the for statement and if statement start and end. When you have nested statements like that it can get complicated when your scripts are very complicated.
     
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    #27
    yes thats what i want to learn.. the formatting...
     
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    #28
    yep, that's pretty much all there is to it. just grouping the statements together inside your functions, for and while loops, and if statements
     
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