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I am learning php and have a book which has lots of examples and exercises in. The one I'm doing is about sending email. I copied the code to the letter, but I am getting an error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in C:\website2\www\sendscript.php on line 6
Why is this happening, any idea?
Here is my PHP script:
<?php
if(($_POST['sender_name']=="")||($_POST['sender_email']=="")||($_POST['message']=="")){
header("Location: sendemail.html");
exit;
}
$email = "Sender's name:\t$_POST['sender_name']\n";
$email .= "Sender's email:\t$_POST['sender_email']\n";
$email .= "Message:\t$_POST['message']\n";
$to = "[email protected]";
$subject = "did script work?";
$mailheaders = "From: Stafford King";
$mailheaders .= "Reply to: $_POST['sender_email']\n";
mail($to, $subject, $email, $mailheaders);
?>
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<h1>Email sent!</h1>
</body>
</html>
And here is my email input form:
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<form method = "post" action = "sendscript.php">
<p><strong>Your name:</strong><br />
<input type = "text" name = "sender_name" size = "30"</p>
<p><strong>Your email address:</strong><br />
<input type = "text" name = "sender_email" size = "30"</p>
<p><strong>Message:</strong><br />
<textarea name = "message" cols = "30" rows = "5" wrap = "virtual"></textarea></p>
<p><input type = "submit" name = "submit" value = "send email"></p>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Thanks guys :)
308
You need to wrap your array variables in curly brackets {} or concatenate them within the string:
OPTION 1
$email = "Sender's name:\t{$_POST['sender_name']}\n";
OPTION 2
$email = "Sender's name:\t" . $_POST['sender_name'] . "\n";
NOTE:
Use of an IDE such as Dreamweaver (license fee), NetBeans or Eclipse (both open source & free) would have caught this immediately. Try one of these, rather than Notepad or Notepad++.
53
$email = "Sender's name:\t$_POST['sender_name']\n";
can't be resolved very well. Use
$email = "Sender's name:\t{$_POST['sender_name']}\n";
instead. Alternatively, you could concatenate or use sprintf:
$email = "Sender's name:\t" . $_POST['sender_name'] . "\n";
$email = sprintf("Sender's name:\t%s\n", $_POST['sender_name']);
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