Please help with PHP – Parse error: syntax error

[DaGenius]

Will someone please help me?, I get the following error and I’m not sure what to do cause I have removed all empty spaces which I feel is causing the error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in C:xampphtdocswsjobsregister.php on line 55

The PHP code is below:

if($_POST) {

if($_POST == $_POST) {

$checksql = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE username = '" . $_POST . "'";

$checkresult = mysql_query($checksql);

$checknumrows = mysql_num_rows($checkresult);

if($checknumrows == 1) {

header("Location: " . $config_basedir . "register.php?error=taken");

}

else {

for($i = 0; $i < 16; $i++) {

$randomstring .= chr(mt_rand(32,126));

}

$activateurl = "http://localhost/wsjobs/activate.php";

$activationcode = urlencode($randomstring);

$verifyemail = urlencode($_POST);

$validusername = $_POST;

$sql = "INSERT INTO users(username, password, email, activationcode, active) VALUES('" . $_POST	. "', '" . $_POST . "', '" . $_POST . "', '" . addslashes($randomstring) . "', 'N')";

mysql_query($sql);



$to = trim($email);

$subject = "[Whitestone Jobs] Activate Your Account";

$headers = <<
From: Whitestone Jobs 

Content-Type: text/plain;

MESSAGE;



$msg = <<
Hi $validusername,

Please click on the following link to activate your new account:

$activateurl?email=$verifyemail&verify=$activationcode



If you have any questions, please send an email to [email protected]

--

Thanks!

Site Administrator

www.whitestonejobs.com

MAILMSG;



mail($to, $subject, $msg, $headers);

require("header.php");

echo "A link has been emailed to the address you provided. Please follow the link in the email to validate your account.";

}

else {

header("Location: " . $config_basedir . "register.php?error=pass");

}

else {

require("header.php");

switch($_GET) {    //line 55

case "pass":

echo "Passwords do not match!";

break;

case "taken":

echo "Username taken, please use another.";

break;

case "no":

echo "Incorrect login details!";

break;

}

}

}

}

?>

















Personal Details




FIRSTNAME: 





LASTname: 



Date of Birth: 



Profession: 



Work Experience: 





Phone Number: 



Email: 



Years of Experience: 



-- Please Select --











Login Details


Username:



Password:



Confirm Password: 










Categories


Please select your job interest category

[TT_Mark]

What is on line 55?

[Historical Forums User]

Instead if saying switch($_GET), you should really declare this variable differently first.

Try this instead:
$error = isset ($_GET) ? mysql_escape_string($_GET) : “”;

You will then have escaped data inside $error if $_GET is set, else you will have a empty variable. Then go on to the switch, where you use $error instead of $_GET. ;)

[DaGenius]

This is what is line 55

switch($_GET) {

[TT_Mark]

Eugh….sorry…that’s me not reading your original post properly.

Like adrenalinfeed says, it’s quite possible something dodgy is being passed into the $_GET variable. Or, your header.php file could contain some unclosed tag that causes an error to pass on into line 55

[DaGenius]

I made certain changes to the code and ended up with the following error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in C:xampphtdocswsjobsregister.php on line 158

Here is the whole code below

if($_POST) {



$problem = FALSE; // No problems so far.



// Check for each value...

if (empty($_POST)) {

$problem = TRUE;

echo '
Please enter your firstname!
';

}

if (empty($_POST)) {

$problem = TRUE;

echo '
Please enter your lastname!
';

}

if (empty($_POST)) {

$problem = TRUE;

echo '
Please enter your date of birth!
';

}

if (empty($_POST)) {

$problem = TRUE;

echo '
Please enter your profession!
';

}

if (empty($_POST)) {

$problem = TRUE;

echo '
Please enter your work experience!
';

}

if (empty($_POST)) {

$problem = TRUE;

echo '
Please enter your phone number!
';

}

if (empty($_POST)) {

$problem = TRUE;

echo '
Please enter your email address!
';

}

if (empty($_POST)) {

$problem = TRUE;

echo '
Please enter a password!
';

}



if ($_POST != $_POST) {

$problem = TRUE;

echo '
Your password did not match your confirm password!
';

}



if (!$problem) { // If there weren’t any problems...



//generate activate code and send mail

if($_POST == $_POST) {

$checksql = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE username = '" . $_POST . "'";

$checkresult = mysql_query($checksql);

$checknumrows = mysql_num_rows($checkresult);

if($checknumrows == 1) {

header("Location: " . $config_basedir . "register.php?error=taken");

}

else {

for($i = 0; $i < 16; $i++) {

$randomstring .= chr(mt_rand(32,126));

}

$activateurl = "http://localhost/wsjobs/activate.php";

$activationcode = urlencode($randomstring);

$verifyemail = urlencode($_POST);

$validusername = $_POST;

$query = "INSERT INTO users(ID, firstname, lastname, dob, profession, workexperience, phone, email, yoe, username, password, activationcode, active, expired, alertkeywords, registerdate) VALUES(0, '" . $_POST	. "', '" . $_POST . "', '" . $_POST . "', '" . addslashes($randomstring) . "', 'N')";

mysqli_query($dbc, $query);



$to = trim($email);

$subject = "[Whitestone Jobs] Activate Your Account";

$headers = <<
From: Whitestone Jobs 

Content-Type: text/plain;

MESSAGE;



$msg = <<
Hi $validusername,

Please click on the following link to activate your new account:

$activateurl?email=$verifyemail&verify=$activationcode



If you have any questions, please send an email to [email protected]

--

Thanks!

Site Administrator

www.whitestonejobs.com

MAILMSG;



mail($to, $subject, $msg, $headers);

require("header.php");

echo "A link has been emailed to the address you provided. Please follow the link in the email to validate your account.";

}



// Clear the posted values:

$_POST = array( );



} else { // Forgot a field.

print '
Please try again!
';

}

} // End of if no problems

}// End of handle form IF

?>

















Personal Details




Firstname: 





Lastname: 



Date of Birth: 



Profession: 



Work Experience: 

<?php echo isset(${_POST})? ${_POST} : ''?>



Phone Number: 



Email: 



Years of Experience: 



-- Please Select --











Login Details


Username:



Password:



Confirm Password: 










Categories


Please select your job interest category

I will appreciate if someone can help me fix this. Thanks so much!.

[TT_Mark]

Unexpected end means that it isn’t expecting the file to end. Therefore you have an unclosed if/while/for statement somewhere

[stefanbar]

Hi, your error is on line 74 ($headers = <<

[stefanbar]

When using the ‘heredoc’ string method, the closing sequence MESSAGE, MAILMSG; must occur on a line by itself and cannot be indented.

E.g.

$to = trim($email);

$subject = "[Whitestone Jobs] Activate Your Account";

$headers = <<
From: Whitestone Jobs 

Content-Type: text/plain;

MESSAGE;

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