jshpik1 Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 Hello, I'm having some difficulty, this is for a class, however the book seems to be using an old version of PHP or something as I continue to get this error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in Location On My Machine\xampp\htdocs\strings.php on line 17 Here's the code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C// DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/ xhtml1-transitional.dtd”> <html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/ xhtml” xml:lang=”en” lang=”en”> <head> <meta http-equiv=”content-type” content=”text/html; charset= iso-8859-1” /> <title>Strings</title> </head> <body> <?php # Script 1.6 - strings.php $first_name = ‘Haruki’; $last_name = ‘Murakami’; $book = ‘Kafka on the Shore’; echo “<p>The book <em>$book</em> was written by $first_name $last_name.</p>”; ?> </body> </html> I have PHP version 5.3.1 installed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFMaBiSmAd Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 All of the quotes in what you posted appear to be smart/curly quotes and won't work in HTML tags or in php code. You need to use straight quotes - " or ' in HTML tags and in php code. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desjardins2010 Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 100% agree, only thing wrong is your '' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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