[SOLVED] Parse error-Need Help!

[dhossai]

Hi fellows!

I am using a form in my update profile page and getting an error like--
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in /home/dbanglad/public_html/111/1profile.php on line 8

with the following code

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<?php
require "check.php";
// If member has logged in then below script will be execuated. 
// let us collect all data of the member 
$row=mysql_fetch_object(mysql_query("select * from tbl_login where userid='$_SESSION[userid]'"));
<form action='update-profileck.php' method='post'/>
<input type=hidden name=todo value=update-profile>     
<fieldset>
<legend>Update Profile</legend>
<label for="LastName">Last Name</label>
<input id="LastName" name="LastName" value='$row->Last_Name' type="text"/><br/>
 
</fieldset>
</form>
echo "<br/>Welcome $_SESSION[userid] <br/><br/>Click &nbsp;<a href=logout.php>here to logout</a> &nbsp; | &nbsp; <a href=change-password.php>Change Password</a>| &nbsp; <br/>";
?>

Any idea or help would be much appreciated. It is not all the form though it just a part if any one wonder. pls explain if you have any answer cauze I am a novice with all this code.

[alexgeek]

You need to close your PHP tags

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<?php
require "check.php";
// If member has logged in then below script will be execuated. 
// let us collect all data of the member 
$row=mysql_fetch_object(mysql_query("select * from tbl_login where userid='$_SESSION[userid]'"));
?>
<form action='update-profileck.php' method='post'/>
<input type=hidden name=todo value=update-profile>     
<fieldset>
<legend>Update Profile</legend>
<label for="LastName">Last Name</label>
<input id="LastName" name="LastName" value='$row->Last_Name' type="text"/><br/>
 
</fieldset>
</form>
<?php echo "<br/>Welcome $_SESSION[userid] <br/><br/>Click &nbsp;<a href=logout.php>here to logout</a> &nbsp; | &nbsp; <a href=change-password.php>Change Password</a>| &nbsp; <br/>";
?>

[dhossai]

Thanks for your reply. I did close the php at the end of the form. I had to do that because I use input value as 'row->Last_Name' (for example) to retrieve data from my MySql table. If I close it before the form it does not show the data that I am retrieving in to the form.

[alexgeek]

Do this then

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<?php
require "check.php";
// If member has logged in then below script will be execuated. 
// let us collect all data of the member 
$row=mysql_fetch_object(mysql_query("select * from tbl_login where userid='$_SESSION[userid]'"));
?>
<form action='update-profileck.php' method='post'/>
<input type=hidden name=todo value=update-profile>     
<fieldset>
<legend>Update Profile</legend>
<label for="LastName">Last Name</label>
<input id="LastName" name="LastName" value='<?php echo $row->Last_Name; ?>' type="text"/><br/>
 
</fieldset>
</form>
<?php echo "<br/>Welcome $_SESSION[userid] <br/><br/>Click &nbsp;<a href=logout.php>here to logout</a> &nbsp; | &nbsp; <a href=change-password.php>Change Password</a>| &nbsp; <br/>";
?>

[hschmitz]

Hi dhossai,

I think alexgeek just missed one PHP variable in the HTML form.
The correct version should look like this

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<?php
require "check.php";
// If member has logged in then below script will be execuated. 
// let us collect all data of the member 
$row=mysql_fetch_object(mysql_query("select * from tbl_login where userid='$_SESSION[userid]'"));
?>
<form action='update-profileck.php' method='post'/>
<input type=hidden name=todo value=update-profile>     
<fieldset>
<legend>Update Profile</legend>
<label for="LastName">Last Name</label>
<input id="LastName" name="LastName" value="<?php echo $row->Last_Name ?>" type="text"/><br/>
 
</fieldset>
</form>
<?php echo "<br/>Welcome $_SESSION[userid] <br/><br/>Click &nbsp;<a href=logout.php>here to logout</a> &nbsp; | &nbsp; <a href=change-password.php>Change Password</a>| &nbsp; <br/>";
?>

One important thing when programming PHP is that all the PHP code needs to be enclosed in the <?php ?> tags, while all the HTML code must be placed outside those tags. When outside the tags, you cannot use the PHP variables, so you have to open and close the PHP tags, whenever you want to produce dynamic content.

See how, in the last line, the echo command is used to generate HTML. This is how HTML is generated when inside the <?php ?> tags.

Btw also note that I've replaced the single quotes around the value field with double quotes.

[alexgeek]

I kinda already posted that mate.

[dhossai]

Thanks guys. It works. Alex made mistake by putting ";" at the end which was

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'<?php echo $row->Last_Name; ?>'

But hschmitz corrected it.
Thanks to all again.