On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 1:53 PM, hE <thelonelynomad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > hi to all, > I set up phptriad on my computer running windows xp. When I tried to > test php with the following program I got an error "Parse error: parse > error, expecting `','' or `';'' in C:\apache\htdocs\mytest.php on line 10" This is line 10: > echo "This is a PHP line"; Note the quotes you're using.... instead of any kind of fancy quotes, just use double quotes (which will allow you to translate $variables and special characters like \n) or single quotes (which use the literal form: $variable is not translated, but would echo as $variable and \n would not echo a newline, but rather the literal \n). -- </Dan> Daniel P. Brown Senior Unix Geek <? while(1) { $me = $mind--; sleep(86400); } ?> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php