Newbie php script help!

karriston posted this at 10:29 — 1st July 2005.

Joined: May 2005

Ok, I don't see what's wrong with this. Here's my code:

<?php
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN\">
<html>
  <head>
<style type=\"text/css\">
body {background: #000000;
           color: #D2D200;}
</style>

  <link rel=\"shortcut icon\" href=\"favicon.ico\" >
  <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=windows-1252\">
 

    <title>Blue lions - Fear the power</title>
    

&lt;script language=\"javascript\" type=\"text/javascript\"&gt;
<!--

var win=null;
function NewWindow(mypage,myname,w,h,scroll,pos){
if(pos==\"random\"){LeftPosition=(screen.width)?Math.floor(Math.random()*(screen.width-w)):100;
TopPosition=(screen.height)
?Math.floor
(Math.random()*((screen.height-h)-75)):100;}
if(pos==\"center\"){LeftPosition=(screen.width)?(screen.width-w)/2:100;
TopPosition=(screen.height)?(screen.height-h)/2:100;}
else if((pos!=\"center\" && pos!=\"random\") || pos==null){LeftPosition=0;TopPosition=20}
settings='width='+w+',height='+h+',top='+TopPosition+',left='+LeftPosition+',scrollbars='+scroll+',location=no,
directories=no,status=no,
menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=no';
win=window.open(mypage,myname,settings);}
// -->
&lt;/script&gt;

  </head>
  <body>
    <td class=\"center\" valign=\"top\">
session_start();
echo \"Hello \".$_SESSION['username'].\"<p>\"


echo \"Your user level is '. $_SESSION['user_level'].' \" which enables
    you access to the following areas: <br />\";

if($_SESSION['user_level'] == 0){
    echo \"- Forums<br />- Chat Room<br />\";
}
if($_SESSION['user_level'] == 1){
    echo \"- Forums<br />- Chat Room<br />- Wall papers<br />\";
}
if($_SESSION['user_level'] >= 2){
    echo \"- Forums<br />- Chat Room<br />- Wall papers<br />- Members pages<br />\";
}


echo \"your password is \". $_SESSION['password'].\" to change it click <a href=\\"changepass.php\\">here</a><br>\";
;




echo\"you have \".$_SESSION['points'].\" points\";


echo \"<br /><a href=logout.php>Logout</a>\";

 

</td>
  </body>
</html>
?>

anyway, I'm getting an error on line 36

<?php
echo \"Your user level is '. $_SESSION['user_level'].' \" which enables
    you access to the following areas: <br />\";
?>

I have no idea what's wrong, help!

By the way, I know that the html isn't perfect and that the page looks ugly, but I'm just testing something. Hope you can help!

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Busy posted this at 12:27 — 1st July 2005.

He has: 6,151 posts

Joined: May 2001

change to:

echo "Your user level is ". $_SESSION['user_level']." which enables
you access to the following areas: ";

the problem was mis alignment of quotes, note you have 3 double quotes and are trying to escape the variable with single quotes when you have used double for the value.

You will also have a problem with this one:
echo "your password is ". $_SESSION['password']." to change it click here";
;
You have only escaped one of the double quotes in the tag, both need to be escaped (\"), so should look like so:
echo "your password is ". $_SESSION['password']." to change it click here";

I take it you know there is no tags, just the and ones

Greg K posted this at 15:57 — 1st July 2005.

He has: 2,145 posts

Joined: Nov 2003

Just to add to Busy's response, you could also do the following:

echo "Your user level is {$_SESSION['user_level']} which enables
      you access to the following areas: <br />";

When you use double quotes for print or echo, you can include variables directly in the quotes. Becasue you are using an array, you surround it with the braces {}.

See: http://www.php.net/types.string for more information and examples. The section on variable parsing can be found at http://www.php.net/types.string#language.types.string.parsing

-Greg

karriston posted this at 16:03 — 2nd July 2005.

They have: 47 posts

Joined: May 2005

Thanks so much for the help, I'm learning everyday