Posted by Schraalhans Keukenmeester on 06/04/07 16:59

At Mon, 04 Jun 2007 05:09:03 -0700, Sheik Ishmael let h(is|er) monkeys
type:

> Really Strange
>
> The code is exactly what is reproduced in the book "Essential PHP for
> Web Developers".
>
> --SI

I don't recall : ever being syntactically correct following an if () or
else. But even if it ever was, it isn't anymore. The online source is
wrong. Besides your copy here isn't a 100% copy of the one in the page you
referred to, you put a ; where the code has a :

It probably works if you remove all the : following if/elses, but I'd have
my doubts about the dubious quality of the work altogether and find
something better.

All code was written when php3 was standard. We're at 5 now, you will find
many version 4 scripts and hosts, but no php3 ones anymore. (Now someone
probably shows me a link to a host using php3 or even older....)

www.php.net is a good starting point.

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