Dear friends, Any guidance to the error , please. Resubmitting, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in C:\HOME\doctorbush\check.php on line 11 Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in C:\HOME\doctorbush\check.php on line 73 ------------------------------------------------------------------ script code ------------------------------------------------------------------------- <?php // example code for checkbox.txt // confirmed working: Friday, March 07, 2003 // Configuration information for connecting to database // Contains $db_name, $db_user, $db_pass, $db_host // for connection. // Enter your database host name here. $db_host = \"localhost\"; // Enter your database password here. $db_pass = \"\"; // Enter your database user name here. $db_user = \"\"; // Enter the name of your database here. $db_name = \"\"; // Connect to database $db_conn = @mysql_pconnect($db_host, $db_user, $db_pass); // Check for database unavailable if (!$db_conn) { print \"ERROR - failed to create connection: \" . >>> mysql_error(); } function make_item_control($value,$title) { $content = '<tr class=\"tabletext\"><td><input type=\"checkbox\" >>> name=\"item[]\" value=\"'.$value.'\" />'.$title.'</td>'; return $content; } if($p_delete_checked) { // Process items // We substract one from the count because a for loop executes >>> once // before incrementing. $n = count($item)-1; for($i = 0; $i <= $n; $i++) { $sql = \"DELETE FROM note WHERE note_id = $item[$i];\"; $result = mysql_db_query($db_name,$sql); if (!$result) { print ' ERROR - Delete note query failed: ' >>> .mysql_error(); } } } else { // list items // database query here $sql = \"SELECT note_id,film_id,LEFT(text,32) AS item_name FROM >>> note ORDER BY film_id ASC;\"; $result = mysql_db_query($db_name,$sql); if (!$result || mysql_num_rows($result) < 1) { print ' ERROR - Select note query failed: ' >>> .mysql_error(); } print '<form action='. $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] .'>'; print '<table>'; while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { print make_item_control($row[note_id],$row[item_name]); } print '<tr class=\"tabletext\"> <td> <input type=\"Submit\" name=p_delete_checked value=\"Delete >>> Checked\" /> </tr>'; print '</table>'; print '</form>'; } ?>