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I’m new to PHP and I’m trying to explore the world of databases. I found a script on the internet I wanted to try out but I was having some problems. When I run the script in a browser it gives me back this error:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /mnt/w0604/d20/s28/b025060c/www/test_calendar2.php on line 52
[code=php]
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
“-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN”
“http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd”>
<html>
<head>
<title>Adding user input to a database</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
if( ! empty( $_REQUEST[‘sex’] ) &&
! empty( $_REQUEST[‘domain’] ) &&
! empty( $_REQUEST[‘mail’] ) ) {
//check user input here!
$dberror = “”;
$ret = add_to_database( $_REQUEST[‘domain’],
$_REQUEST[‘sex’],
$_REQUEST[‘mail’], $dberror);
if(! $ret ) {
print “Error: $dberror<br />n”;
} else {
print “Thank you very much<br />n”;
}
} else {
write_form();
}
function add_to_database( $domain, $sex, $mail, &$dberror ) {
$domain = mysql_real_escape_string( $domain );
$sex = mysql_real_escape_string( $sex );
$mail = mysql_real_escape_string( $mail );
$link = mysql_pconnect(“mysql.netfirms.com”, “*hidden for security*”, “**hidden for security**” );
if(! $link ) {
$dberror = mysql_error();
return false;
}
if( ! mysql_select_db(“d60286207″, $link ) ) {
$dberror = mysql_error();
return false;
}
$query =”INSERT INTO domains( domain, sex, mail )
values( ‘$domain’,
if( !mysql_query($query, $link ) ) {
$dberror= mysql_error();
return false;
}
return true;
}
function write_form() {
print <<<EOF
<form method=”post” action=”{$_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’]}”>//line 52
<p><input type=”text” name=”domain” size=”20″ />
The domain you would like</p>
<p><input type=”text” name=”mail” size=”20″ />
Your mail address</p>
<p><select name=”sex”>
<option value=”F”>Female</option>
<option value=”M”>Male</option>
< /select></p>
<p><input type=”submit” value=”submit!” /></p>
</form>
FORM;
}
?>
</body>
</html>
If you have any suggestions on what I should do to fix this script please let me know.
Thanks,
Travis