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dwcooper
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Dumb question of the day!

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Can anyone tell me why I get a PARSE ERROR when trying to assign a value to a variable? These only happen where there is a FUNCTION defined.

<?php
function david() {
$a = "Hello";
    }
?>

Gives me a parse error, regardless of the function name I give or the variable name I assign.

Parse error: parse error in /Library/WebServer/Documents/phpfunction.php on line 1


Whenever I paste code snippets from sites I get errors as well when there are FUNCTIONS present?

It's driving me nuts. Feel free to point out my stupid error.

Running on Mac OSX Server.
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Post by BDKR »

Is "<?php" of your code. Is there any white or blank space above the opening php tag? Also, what happens if you open it with "<?" instead?

Just some ideas...

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Post by dwcooper »

Blank space above the opening php tag...

Oh, how much time did I spend on that!!!!!

Thanks much.
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