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jaatendi
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biggest newb question ever (parse error)

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hi, I just changed all my html files in my site to php files, then replaced the code on each page that was the menu with <?php include("menu.php"); ?> , and then created a separate menu file. It works fine in WAMP, but when I put it online and visited the site it says: "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/jaatendi/public_html/shalimarhealthspa/index.php on line 1"


what the heck? thx in advance
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Benjamin
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Re: biggest newb question ever (parse error)

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1. Can you please post the code using the code tags?
2. Are you using short tags? ie <?
3. What program did you edit the file with?
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Re: biggest newb question ever (parse error)

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1.
here is the code for the index.php

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" standalone="yes"?>
 
<!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
 
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
 
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="watereddowntstyle.css"   type="text/css" media="screen" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="printstyle.css"          type="text/css" media="print" />
<style type="text/css" media="screen">  @import"regularstyle.css"; </style>    
 
 
<title>Shalimar Health Spa, Nelson British Columbia voted number one spa </title>
</head>
<!-- Start of StatCounter Code -->
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
var sc_project=1951983; 
var sc_invisible=1; 
var sc_partition=17; 
var sc_security="c2af92b4"; 
</script>
 
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://www.statcounter.com/counter/counter.js"></script><noscript><a href="http://www.statcounter.com/" target="_blank"><img  src="http://c18.statcounter.com/counter.php?sc_project=1951983&java=0&security=c2af92b4&invisible=1" alt="web tracker" border="0"></a> </noscript>
<!-- End of StatCounter Code -->
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
 
<div id="banner">
<img src="images/spabanner.jpg" alt="spa banner" />
</div>
 
 
<?php include("menu.php"); ?>
 
 
 
 
<img src="images/intropic.jpg" alt="kootenay spa " />
 
 
</div> <!--wrapper-->
<div id="footer">
<p>2006 ShalimarHealthSpa All rights reserved. Website by <a href="http://www.gnosismedia.ca"> Gnosis Media</a>  </p>
</div>
</body>
 
</html>
 
 
 
 

here is the code for menu.php

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<div id="menu">
<ul>
<li><a href="index.php">Home </a>  </li>
<li><a href="contact.php">Contact </a></li>
<li><a href="treatments.php">Treatments </a> </li>
<li><a href="jaccuzi.php">Features  </a>  </li>
<li><a href="packages.php">Packages  </a>  </li>
<li><a href="reservations.php">Reservations </a>  </li>
<li><a href="about.php">About </a>  </li>
</ul>
</div>
 
 
3. I used dreamweaver
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Re: biggest newb question ever (parse error)

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Sitenote, Dreamweaver is notorious for adding hidden characters into the file. It's worth a try opening the file in notepad and overwriting the file.
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Benjamin
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Re: biggest newb question ever (parse error)

Post by Benjamin »

This is likely the culprit if short tags are enabled:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" standalone="yes"?>
 
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