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Posted by Rik on 12/16/06 03:17
alice@fearofdolls.com wrote:
> I'm just starting to learn php, and here's the code from a book I'm
> reading -
> The time is
> <?php echo date(H:i:s');?>
> and the date is
> <?php echo date(j F Y');?>
>
> I typed it in an editor called Notepad++, FTP'd it using ASCII onto an
> ISP that I know has Apache/MySQL/PHP installed and working. But when I
> go to the URL http://www.fearofdolls.com/time.php I get the error
> Parse error: parse error, unexpected ':' in
> /home/fearofdo/public_html/time.php on line 2.
> What am I doing wrong?
> This is the second time this happened to me- my first test code had a
> similar problem, and that's when I switched to a non-MS notepad editor
> so it would save it correctly, but this time I can't figure out what's
> going wrong. It seems that php is very difficult to get to work.
You don't quote correctly. Either your not that great in retyping them, or
you should ask for your money back.
If you use Notepad++, I assume you have syntax highlighting, which might
have told you that fact. Normally, a good editor will give a string a
different color (and functions, and variable names....), usually some
greyish thing.
echo date('H:i:s');
echo date('j F Y');
Remember, it's not like HTML, every quote counts, and omitting it will not
be forgiven :-).
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Rik Wasmus
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