For some reason I keep getting a syntax error when I try to access the website even internally through the file manager. I suspect the problem might be in the index page but there are other pages as well. When I bring up the coded page in the file manager the first line has a ? proceeding the HTML or PHP code where the other pages that do work do not have the ? there.
This is the error that I get when I try to access your web site.
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected "<" in /misc/30/416/624/257/5/user/web/ivybakeshoppe.com/index.php on line 2
This indicates that you are using a PHP file for your index. PHP files have the following general form. In front of the "?" there should be a "<" character. The error indicates that you are missing this character.
Code:
<span style="font-weight:bold;"><?php</span>
/* PHP code, variables, calculations, etc.. */
...........
/* End of PHP code */
<span style="font-weight:bold;">?></span>
It is also possible to include HTML within a PHP file. The following code snippet simply creates a string variable named "HTML_Code" and adds HTML code to it. At the end it writes the variable contents to the browser. This kind of setup could extract data from a form, process it, and then include it in the page response.
Code:
<?php
/* HTML code being added to a variable */
$HTML_Code = <<<EOD
<html>
<head>
<title>Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<div>Yadada yadada yadada!</div>
</body>
</html>
EOD;
/* Output the contents of the variable to the browser */
echo "$HTML_Code";
/* End of PHP code */
?>
I'm not sure the Visual editor can handle PHP files. The Visual editor has a tendency to modify code that it doesn't understand. It's probably best to only use the Text editor with PHP files. I use HTML-Kit for all of my editing and it doesn't have any problem working with HTML, PHP, and Javascript correctly.
Browser: Firefox, Netscape, Sea Monkey, Internet Explorer, .....
