syntax error unexpected T ENCAPSED AND WHITESPACE expecting T STRING or T VARIABLE or T NUM STRING

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I have been staring at this code for hours now and I cannot figure out where my mistake is  I know this syntax error usually comes up because of some missing or out of place curly brace or some issue with single double quotes and I m not sure there is one anywhere in my code  I am only trying to fix my syntax right now so I can get the code to completely compile  Any help would be much appreciated  Here is my code    lt  DOCTYPE html PUBLIC  -  W3C  DTD XHTML 1 0 Strict  EN   http   www w3 org TR xhtml1 DTD xhtml1-strict dtd  gt   lt html xmlns  http   www w3 org 1999 xhtml  xml lang  en  lang  en  gt    lt head gt    lt title gt Add to and Read from the Database lt  title gt   lt meta http-equiv  Content-Type  content  text html  charset ISO-8859-1    gt   lt  head gt    lt body gt    lt  php function print form     echo  lt  lt  lt END           lt form action    SERVER PHP SELF   method  post  gt        lt h3 gt Please put your comments below  lt  h3 gt    lt input type  hidden  name  stage  value  process   gt   lt p gt Name  lt  p gt   lt input type  text  size  30  name  WholeName    gt   lt p gt Comment  lt  p gt   lt input type  text  size  200  name  Comment    gt    lt input type   submit   value   Submit   gt   lt  form gt  END             function process form      print   lt p gt adding comment    lt  p gt      Name     POST  WholeName     Comment     POST  Comment         if  preg match    a-zA-Z       Name             if  preg match    a-zA-Z0-9   -             Comment                  sql    insert into comments1 values                 Name                 Comment                 result   mysql query  sql  or die  Mysql query failed            else           print  invalid name                 else   print  invalid characters           db   mysql connect              if    db       print  Error - Could not connect to mysql      exit        er   mysql select db      if    er      print  Error - Could not connect to comments1 database     exit     if  isset   POST  stage     amp  amp    process       POST  stage          process form      else       print form         gt    lt  body gt   lt  html gt

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I stumbled on this question as I had the same error. Mine was due to a slightly different problem and since I resolved it on my own I thought it useful to share here. Original code with issue:

$comment = "$_POST['comment']";

Because of the enclosing double-quotes, the index is not dereferenced properly leading to the assignment error. In my case I chose to fix it like this:

$comment = "$_POST[comment]";

but dropping either pair of quotes works; it's a matter of style I suppose :)

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Your problem is that you re not closing your HEREDOC correctly  The line containing END  must not contain any whitespace afterwards

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Might be a pasting problem  but as far as I can see from your code  you re missing the single quotes around the HTML part you re echo-ing   If not  could you post the code correctly and tell us what line is causing the error

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You have extra spaces after END  that cause the heredoc not terminated

[php] syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING

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