Hi Vicki,

try this:

<?
if (!$SampFirstName || !$SampLastName || !$SampEmail)
{
echo "You have not entered all the required information. <br>"; #<-- you
need a semi colon here and

echo "Please go back and try again."; #<-- another echo here.
exit;
}

you could also do this:

<?
if (!$SampFirstName || !$SampLastName || !$SampEmail)
{
echo "You have not entered all the required information. <br> Please go back
and try again.";
exit;
}


Jack


-----Original Message-----
From: Vicki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 9:52 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PHP] Newbie ?: why this error?


Not only am I new to PHP, I'm new to programming altogether. I'm trying
to take it step by step, and my first big experiment was the script
below, used to enter info from a form into a mySQL database. I get the
following error message when it runs:

Parse error: parse error, expecting `','' or `';'' in
/www/ideasforimages/request_sample.php on line 8

I've been stuck on this all afternoon. The opening PHP tag is what's on
line 8. I've run other simple scripts with the same tag, so it doesn't
seem to be a problem with the server set-up or application. Any help
would be greatly appreciated!

Vicki

Here's the the first part of the script in question:

<html>
<head>
<title>Sample Request Results</title>
</head>
<body>

<p>Thank you for requesting a sample. Here it is.</p>

<?
if (!$SampFirstName || !$SampLastName || !$SampEmail)
{
echo "You have not entered all the required information. <br>"
"Please go back and try again.";
exit;
}

$SampFirstName = addslashes ($SampFirstName);
$SampLastName  = addslashes ($SampLastName) ;
$SampEmail = addslashes ($SampEmail);

 $db = mysql_connect ("hostname", "user", "password");

if (!$db)
{
echo "Error: Could not connect to database. Please try again later.";
exit;
}

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