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Parse Errors: Hours of Head Banging Fun


Nathan54AB

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I'm a newbie to PHP programming, and for that matter any programming. I've been learning with Larry Ullman's PHP For the World Wide Web Second Edition. I'm in a section that's indroducing the "if" concept and wrote their sample script. Testing it, I get the following error:

 

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '>' in directory\registration.php on line 26

 

For the life of me I can't figure out why it would be having this error and I can't spot any stray >'s (If that's what that error implies). Attached to this post is the file involved, registration.php. There is also a registration.html that the PHP file receives, but I'm not able to upload html files here.

 

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C// DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/shtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Registration Form</title>
</head>
<body><?php
ini_set('display_errors', 1);

// Defines variables from registration.html.
$firstName		= $_POST['firstName'];
$lastName		= $_POST['lastName'];
$email			= $_POST['email'];
$password		= $_POST['passowrd'];
$confirm		= $_POST['confirm'];
$birthday		= $_POST['birthday'];
$favGameGenre	= $_POST['favGameGenre'];

?>
<p>Registration results:</p>
<?php
if(empty($firstName))
	{
	echo	"
	<p>You must enter your first name.</p>
			";
	}
if(empty($lastName))
	{
	echo	"
	<p>You must enter your last name.</p>
			";
	}
if(empty($email))
	{
	echo	"
	<p>You must enter your email</p>
			";
	}
if(empty($password))
	{
	echo	"
	<p>You must enter a password</p>
			";
	}


?>
</body>
</html>

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