Hey I appreciate the help just before the weekend...

This snippet is a simplified version of what I'm running, but it produces the same error

>>parse error, expecting `T_STRING' or `T_VARIABLE' or `T_NUM_STRING'<<

and refers to the 7th line of code below when I run it.

Here it is:

<?php
include 'connect.inc';
$a_office = 'El Dorado Hills';
$a_os = 'winme';
$srch = mysql_query( "SELECT os_id FROM os WHERE operating_sys = '$a_os'", $db);
$sql = "INSERT INTO agent (office_id, os_id) VALUES ('$array[\"os_id\"]')";
?>


Can anyone help, please???

Thanks again! :)

Might I suggest that you repost in one of the Open source/PHP forums on the site? This one is for site feedback, really, and while I don't doubt that someone here will be able to answer your question, there's more chance if you ask in the right place :)

Chris

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1. Never tell everything you know

Uh... what? Was the original post moved or something? This is PHP-HowTo, is it not?

Anyway, aeres's post was cross-posted to PHP-DB. I'll cross-post my response here, too.

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The problem is that PHP is trying to substitute an array variable in a string, but your index begins with the double-quote character. The only allowable tokens in a string index are a character string (T_STRING), another variable (T_VARIABLE), or a number (T_NUM_STRING).

Rewrite that line like this:

PHP assumes anything within square brackets is the index to the array, since it's already parsing it from within string context.

For more information on how PHP performs variable substitution within strings, read the manual at:
  http://www.php.net/types.string
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Take care,

Nik
http://www.bigaction.org/

You could also rewrite the line like so:

$sql = "INSERT INTO agent (office_id, os_id) VALUES ('{$array["os_id"]}')";

The curly braces tells PHP that is an array. Very handy. Especially so if you get to dealing with multi-dimensional arrays.

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Rich

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Well, to be specific, an opening curly brace followed by a dollar sign tell PHP that it should break out of string parsing mode and enter it's regular variable parsing mode. You don't necessarily need to have an array variable within curly braces.


Take care,

Nik
http://www.bigaction.org/

You have 2 problems.
1) Linux is giving away error on redirection of page.
2) some PHP functions are not running in LINUX environment.
Solution:
1) You have used a function die("error................"); i think that this function intends to write some output to the customer. There it should be in mind that whenever you want to call header() function you make sure that before calling to header() function, NOTHING is being written or sent to the browser. e.g. you cannot echo/print something in browser window if u want in next step to call header() function. Therefore, try to remove die("error................"); line from your code. and also for an added security, delete ALL the blank lines from your page that comes prior to header() call.

2) for this problem you have to re-compile PHP. Make sure that apache is installed. Make PHP a module of Apache. You have to read closely the installation/compilation instruction of PHP.

Regards,

Musharaf Choudhry
Sr. Software Engineer, ICNS Inc.
Manager Operations, GiftTokri.com
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Musharaf Choudhry

to complete the discussion about variables within a string, my opinion about the arrays is that they should always be concatened as variables:

$sql = "INSERT INTO agent (office_id, os_id) VALUES ('$array[os_id]')";

should be, in fact :

$sql = "INSERT INTO agent (office_id, os_id) VALUES ('".$array['os_id']."')";

although the index is being recognized without quotes, it should always have.

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NTIC engineer

Just to play devil's advocate, how would you handle variables within heredoc strings?

To each their own, of course, but it does (in my opinion) look a lot cleaner and shorter to just use curly-brace syntax within double-quoted and heredoc strings for variable substitution. This not only saves you from having lots of ugly concatenation operations, but might also be slightly more efficient -- I don't know if there's any performance penalty involved with concatenating multiple strings together instead of simply performing variable substitutions in place.



Take care,

Nik
http://www.bigaction.org/