Posted by Captain Paralytic on 09/14/07 15:28

On 14 Sep, 16:20, Reggie <joelregisfo...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 14, 3:23 pm, Anonymous <anonym...@nowhere.invalid> wrote:
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> > Reggie wrote:
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> > > am trying to associate username with filename in a upload script.
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> > > I get this error:
> > > Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/fhlinux169/c/
> > > clashoff.co.uk/user/htdocs/upload.php on line 42
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> > Why don't you just look at line 42 then?
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> > > $myfilename=basename( $_FILES['uploaded']['name'])
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> > > mysql_connect("$host", "$username", "$password")or die("cannot
> > > connect");
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> > Pretty obvious, you missed a semicolon in the line above 42.
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> > Bye!
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> Where did i miss a semicolon.I cant see it.Am new to PHP- Hide quoted text -
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Of course you can't see it, it's not there! that is what missing
means.

Look at line 41, it has no semicolon, so php carries on reading to
line 42 and finds a string, when by now it should have had a semicolon.

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