unexpected '<' error

[pmonty]

$left .= <div class="quotepost"><div class="textdiv"><q class="quotetext">.$row['quote'].</q></div><p class="quoteauthor">-.$row['author'].</p></div><br/>; 

on this line i am getting :Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' on line 91 not sure what it is because my tags look fine. Any ideas would be helpful? thanks

[thescientist]

you're forgetting quotes at the beginning of the string, right where the error says, at the < before div. You need to put all that text in quotes.

$left .= '<div class="quotepost"><div class="textdiv"><q class="quotetext">' . $row['quote'] . '</q></div><p class="quoteauthor">'  . $row['author']. '</p></div><br/>';

[Mudsaf]

$left .= <div class="quotepost"><div class="textdiv"><q class="quotetext">.$row['quote'].</q></div><p class="quoteauthor">-.$row['author'].</p></div><br/>; 

on this line i am getting :Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' on line 91 not sure what it is because my tags look fine. Any ideas would be helpful? thanks

Or if you want to do with double quotes

$left .= "<div class=\"quotepost\"><div class=\"textdiv\"><q class=\"quotetext\">" . $row['quote'] . "</q></div><p class=\"quoteauthor\">-" . $row['author'] . "</p></div><br/>";

[callumacrae]

Or if you want to do with double quotes

$left .= "<div class=\"quotepost\"><div class=\"textdiv\"><q class=\"quotetext\">" . $row['quote'] . "</q></div><p class=\"quoteauthor\">-" . $row['author'] . "</p></div><br/>";

You shouldn't use double quotes for a string like that, that's ugly.Mind you, you shouldn't really have HTML in a string either.EDIT: yey ipb sucks Edited February 11, 2013 by callumacrae

[dsonesuk]

confused again?

[callumacrae]

No.

[dsonesuk]

How do you think a CMS works, does it not store html, and add this to the page as string, or does it magically appear out of the ether.

Edited February 12, 2013 by Ingolme
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