[RESOLVED] help

i dont no wats wrong with these code samples...

Code:

---

        session_name ('User');
        session_start();
        $_SESSION['username'] = 'testing';
        $_SESSION['loggedin'] = time();
                header ('Location: http://$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) . '/welcome.php');
                exit ();
                } else {
                echo '<p>The submittes username and password do not match those on file.<br />
                    Go back and try again.</p>';

---

and

Code:

---

<?php

session_start();
require ('header.php');

echo '<h3>Welcome to Distorted View, ' . ucfirst($_SESSION['username']) . '!</h3>;
echo '<p>You have been logged in since:<br /> ' . date ('g:i a', $_SESSION['loggedin']) . '</p>';

echo '<p><a href="logout.php" title="Log Out">Log Out</a></p>';

require ('footer.php');

?>

---

they both contain parse errors ( an unexpected T_STRING error in the first where the header (line 15ish)i s and an unexpected '>' in the second one (line 7ish))

Been a while since I did any PHP :)

Your problem seems to be where you are referencing your arrays while 'inside' a string.

You have the line

'Location: http://$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) . '/welcome.php'

Which really needs to be

'Location: http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) . '/welcome.php'

This is because the ' character begins and ends your string. Hence your problem :)

The problem with your second example is quote marks.

echo '<p><a href="logout.php" title="Log Out">Log Out</a></p>';

Might I recommend you use a syntax hightligher for PHP. This will make it clear where you begin and end a string, and highlight syntax errors.

Good Luck!

it says the problem is on line 7 for the second one... this is line 7

echo '<p>You have been logged in since:<br /> ' . date ('g:i a', $_SESSION['loggedin']) . '</p>';

the first one worx now thanx but the second is still weird

Ah look here is the problem :0

echo '<h3>Welcome to Distorted View, ' . ucfirst($_SESSION['username']) . '!</h3>;

You do not terminate the string after </H3>;

A syntax highlighter would have shown this problem !!

so wat should it be? sry im new

n/m i got it

thanx Duck