PHP endforeach parse error

Question

Hi folks,

I'm learning PHP and CakePHP and I have a problem with the following code. When I execute it (with WAMP: PHP 5.3.0, Apache 2.2.11 and MySql 5.1.36) appears a parse error in the line of endforeach. Somebody knows what is happend? All the documentation I read it says that the endforeach; is legal but... I have a problem :-(

Thanks in advance and have a nice day! Oscar.

<?php foreach($tasks as $task): ?>
<tr>
    <td><?php echo $task['Task']['title']; ?></td>
    <td>
        <?php if($task['Task']['done']): echo "Done";
              else: echo "Pending"; 
        ?>
    </td>
    <td><?php echo $task['Task']['created']; ?></td>
    <td><?php echo $task['Task']['modified']; ?></td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<?php endforeach; ?>

Edited: added the colon after the foreach(..)

Answer 1

The syntax is:

foreach($tasks as $task):
/* ... */
endforeach;

You're missing a : after foreach().

The error is at endforeach, because without the colon, it's equivalent to:

foreach($tasks as $task) {
/* one line here */
}

And then you use endforeach, outside of foreach -- so php doesn't throws the error here.

Answer 2

Try to add ":" at the foreach statement:

<?php foreach($tasks as $task): ?>

Answer 3

You forgot the endif; statement after line 6.

Answer 4

It is more clear if you strip the HTML:

<?php
foreach($tasks as $task):
    echo $task['Task']['title'];
    if($task['Task']['done']): echo "Done";
    else: echo "Pending"; 
    echo $task['Task']['created'];
    $task['Task']['modified'];
endforeach;
?>

As you can see you are missing the endif;:

<?php
foreach($tasks as $task):
    echo $task['Task']['title'];
    if($task['Task']['done']):
        echo "Done";
    else:
        echo "Pending"; 
    endif;
    echo $task['Task']['created'];
    $task['Task']['modified'];
endforeach;
?>