On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:14 AM, PJ <af.gourmet@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm using php5, postgresql 8.3, apache2.2.8, FreeBSD 7.0 > I don't understand the message: > > *Parse error*: syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting > T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING > > the guilty line is: > > list($page_id)=sqlget(" > select page_id from pages where name='$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']'"); Inside quotes, you need to remove the single quotes around your array index. Seems wrong, I know, but that's what php says to do. I prefer to concatenate. so either: list($page_id)=sqlget("select page_id from pages where name='$_SERVER[SCRIPT_NAME]'"); list($page_id)=sqlget("select page_id from pages where name=".$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']."); are legal.