Hello I am brand new at this so go easy, I am trying to create a mailing list for my newsletter and I am using the book. I have entered all the code correctly but it is giving me this

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /home/content/f/t/p/ftpcarrie/html/mail/class.SimpleMail.php on line 4

I have checked with my hosting company and they assure me that I have PHP 5 capabilities, and I tried to add

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php

to my .htaccess file then I get a message

POST is not allowed for the URL /mail/admin_transact.php. and my whole site just shows up in code

can somebody please help me or show me where to go to fix this. Much Appriecated!

Ok I think I figured out one part of this, now im getting a new error, I changed the public/private to var,

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_NEW in /home/content/f/t/p/ftpcarrie/html/mail/class.SimpleMail.php on line 78

here is the code:

    }

    if (!mail ($this->to,$this->subject,$this->message,$this->headers)) {
        throw new Exception('Sending mail failed');
        return FALSE;
    } else {
        return TRUE;
        }

Carriemh,

Did you resolve this problem, yet?
I'm new to this, also, so don't expect a lot of help from me, but...

Judging from the error message you posted, it looks like your sending a pathname "...content/f/t/p/ftpcarrie...".
Shouldn't it be "...content/ftp/ftpcarrie..."?

If that's the case, it's probably a syntax problem. Perhaps you need to escape some characters somewhere in your script.

TG^2