@BMR777Jan 14.2015 — #The way that is written it makes me think that the author of the PHP script started an IF check, then switched over to HTML to display the results. They would need to add the closing bracket in order to have their PHP script compile.
So, your script might be something like this:
[code=php]<?php $username = "Bob";
if($username == "Bob"){
?>
<p>Hey there Bob</p>
<?php } else { ?>
<p>You are not Bob!</p>
<?php } ?>[/code]
As you can see, I mixed HTML content in with PHP content without using the traditional echo statement of PHP, but I need the closing } at the end to close the else statement of the if.