I am running PHP5 on a free web server and I am trying to learn PHP reading a "for dummies" book...It gives me some code to run and for some infuriating reason I get errors on every line that echos HTML.
here is the code. specifics have been Xed out but they are accurate:
<?php
/* Program: mysql_up.php
* Desc: Connects to MySQL Server and
* outputs settings.
*/
echo “<html>
<head><title>Test MySQL</title></head>
<body>”;
$host=”XXXX”;
$user=”XXXX”;
$password=”XXXX”;
$cxn = mysqli_connect($host,$user,$password);
$sql=”SHOW STATUS”;
$result = mysqli_query($cxn,$sql);
if($result == false)
{
echo “<h4>Error: “.mysqli_error($cxn).”</h4>”;
}
else
{
/* Table that displays the results */
echo “<table border=’1’>
<tr><th>Variable_name</th>
<th>Value</th></tr>”;
for($i = 0; $i < mysqli_num_rows($result); $i++)
{
echo “<tr>”;
$row_array = mysqli_fetch_row($result);
for($j = 0;$j < mysqli_num_fields($result);$j++)
{
echo “<td>”.$row_array[$j].”</td>\n”;
}
}
echo “</table>”;
}
?>
</body></html>
Whenever it gets to a line that echos HTML I get this error or similar:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '>' in /home/a7613610/public_html/mysql_up.php on line 6
I want to learn PHP but when it reports errors in supposedly good code it makes me not want to.