[mindiapolis]

Could someone help me understand this error message?

The code is:

$errors=array();
	if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
	validate_input();
  	else {
		display_form();	
	}
	}

the error message is Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ELSE in /home/content/a/u/n/auntievics/html/checkOut.php on line 38

[macosxnerd101]

Your else statement is contained in your if statement. Check your curly braces.

[Atli]

Proper indentation makes stuff like this much easier to spot. I mean, if I re-arrange your code like this:

$errors=array();
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {
	validate_input();
	else {
		display_form();	
	}
}

The error becomes fairly obvious.

[mindiapolis]

I'm not quite following you. It I checked and all the curly brackets are matched. I even tried deleting the curly brackets around the else statement, but that didn't help Either. Can you help me a little bit more?

[Atli]

All else blocks must follow an if block. The error in your code is that you put the else block inside the if block.

// How it should look:
if ( something ) {
    // Do something
}
else {
	// Do something else
}

// And this is how your's looks:
if ( something ) {
	// Do something
	else {
		// Do something else
	}
}

[mindiapolis]

that helped. Thank you so much