# PHP/MySQL funky parse error

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**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [April 9, 2004, 4:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-mysql-funky-parse-error/48058 "2004-04-09T16:47:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@nobody](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/nobody)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 4:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-mysql-funky-parse-error/48058/1 "2004-04-09T16:47:07Z")

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So I’m getting:  
**Parse error** : parse error in **eddIn.php** on line \*\*33  
\*\*which is cool because link 33 is just the closing of the html tag.  
here is my code:

```php
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
  <html>
  <head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
  <title>edit index page</title>
  </head>
  <body>
  <?php
  mysql_connect("stupid me","stupid me","stupid me");
  mysql_select_db("stupid me");
  $arr = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM index WHERE ID=1") or die("error querying database");
  	if($_POST['hit'])
  	{
  		$pageTitle = $_GET['pageTitle'];
  		$title = $_POST['title'];
  		$blurb = $_POST['blurb'];
 		mysql_query("UPDATE index SET pageTitle='$pageTitle', title='$title', blurb='$blurb' WHERE ID=1") or die("error querying databse");
  		print "<p>Index successfully edited.</p>";
  		echo '<a href="edit.php">Return</a>';
  		} else {
 		$arr2 = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM index WHERE ID=1") or die("error querying database");
  		$result_ar2 = mysql_fetch_array($arr2);
  		?>
  		<form method="post" action="eddIn.php">
  		<input type="hidden" name="hit" value="1">
 		<b>Page Title:</b> <input type='TEXT' name='pageTitle' value='<?php echo $result_ar2['pageTitle']; ?>' size=60><br />
 		<b>Title:</b> <INPUT TYPE='TEXT' NAME='title' value='<?php echo $result_ar2['title']; ?>' size=60><br />
 		<b>Blurb:</b> <INPUT TYPE='TEXT' NAME='blurb' value='<?php echo $result_ar2['blurb']; ?>' size=60><br />
  		<input type="submit" value="Edit Index Page">
  		</form>
  </body>
  </html>

```

I can’t really figure out what to do  
If anyone has any ideas, feel free to let me know 🙂