Posted by "Larry E. Ullman" on 11/05/05 04:24

> mail($to, stripslashes($_POST["subject"]), wordwrap($_POST
> ["message"], 60), "From: $_POST["from"]\r\n");
>
> and I get:
> Parse error: parse error, unexpected '\"', expecting T_STRING or
> T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /www-html/emailer/index.html on line 41

The use of $var['index'] or $var["index"] ($_POST['from'], $_GET
["to"], etc.) within double quotation marks is causing the problem.
To fix this, wrap the whole construct in curly braces:

mail($to, stripslashes($_POST["subject"]), wordwrap($_POST
["message"], 60), "From: {$_POST["from"]}\r\n");

You only have to do this within other quotation marks and only if the
array's index is a string.

Hope that helps,
Larry

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