Re: Beginning php study



Wings wrote:
> Hi, just beginning my study of php and got stuck right off the bat. I saved
> the following to a page called test.php.
>
> <? php
> $age = 67;
> echo $age;
> ?>
>
> Looking at it in the browser I get
>
> Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in
> C:\XAMPP\xampplite\htdocs\nitefly\FCU\FCU\test.php on line 6
>
> Line 6 was the $age=67.

PHP often reports an error where it gives up trying to parse something,
not where the error really is.

In your case, you have a space where no space should be. You have '<?
php', it should be '<?php' or if short tags are enabled, just '<?'.

Ken

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