Parse Error: syntax error in echo statement

Question

I'm doing a script that display a list of checkboxes containing data stored in my database: email_list table.

My script:

<img src="blankface.jpg" width="161" height="350" alt="" style="float:right" />
<img name="elvislogo" src="elvislogo.gif" width="229" height="32" border="0" alt="Make Me Elvis" />
<p>Please select the email addresses to delete from the email list and click Remove.</p> 

<form method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?> ">

<?php   
    $dbc= mysqli_connect('localhost', 'root', '', 'elvis_store')
        or die('Error connecting to MySQL server.');

    $query = "SELECT * FROM email_list";
    $result = mysqli_query($dbc, $query)
        or die('Error querying database');

    while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) {
        echo '<input type="checkbox" value="' . $row['id']'" name="todelete[]" />';
        echo $row['firstname'];
        echo $row['lastname'];
        echo $row['email'];
        echo '<br />';
    }
    mysqli_close($dbc);
?>

    <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Remove" />

</form>

While I'm running this script, it display a Parse error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ''" name="todelete[]" />'' (T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING), expecting ',' or ';' in C:\wamp\www\removeemail.php on line 16

I don't get this problem.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 25 '16 at 05:28

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Add . after $row['id']

echo '<input type="checkbox" value="' . $row['id'] . '" name="todelete[]" />';

answered Jun 25 '16 at 05:28

Jayesh Chitroda

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I didn't understand 100% why put single quotes in the value property? We already have single quotes in the echo. – Johny Nassar Jun 25 '16 at 05:34
if you will not use single quote to bind variable then it will break the entire input tag' – Jayesh Chitroda Jun 25 '16 at 05:55

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 25 '16 at 05:32

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You're missing . in your first echo statement. . must be at the both ends to concatenate the string.

Update your code like this.

echo '<input type="checkbox" value="'. $row['id'].'" name="todelete[]" />';

http://php.net/manual/en/language.operators.string.php

answered Jun 25 '16 at 05:32

Alok Patel

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Thanks. I didn't understand 100% why put single quotes in the value property? We already have single quotes in the echo. – Johny Nassar Jun 25 '16 at 05:43
That's because you want to concatenate the `PHP variable` with string. Look at the reference manual. – Alok Patel Jun 25 '16 at 05:45

Parse Error: syntax error in echo statement

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