PHP Unexpected T_VARIABLE?

1

I’m new to PHP and creating a shoutbox for my site, but I keep getting this:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /home/vip3r/public_html/scripts/shoutbox/submit.php on line 14

here’s my code:

 <?
$db = mysql_connect("localhost","vip3r","password");
//the host, name, and password for your mysql
mysql_select_db("vip3r",$db);
if($submit)
{
	$sql = "INSERT INTO shoutbox (id,name,message) VALUES_('NULL','$name', '$message')";
____$result=MYSQL_QUERY($sql);
// inserting it into the shoutbox table which we made in the mysql statements before
}
?> 

<form action="<? echo $php_self ?>" method="post"> 
<INPUT TYPE='TEXT' value='name' NAME='name' SIZE=30 maxlength='100'><br> 
<INPUT TYPE='TEXT' value='message' NAME='message' SIZE=30 maxlength='100'> 
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit"> 
</form>

I googled it, and all the causes seem to be careless mistakes. I can’t find any in mine, but I’ve probably overlooked something. Any ideas?

2

well the only thing I really see is that in line 14 you start using single quotes instead of double quotes. change all of your single quotes to double quotes that might help…I’m not sure…

3

but that would interfere with the variable decleration :slight_smile:

hmmm…

4

I meant from line 14 on.

oh, and I don’t get that error when I run the same script on my machine… Do you have the file uploaded on your server? Maybe it has something to do with your database…

5

Ya, I’ve got PHP 4 loaded with MySQL 3 or something.
http://www.vip3r.com/scripts/shoutbox/submit.php

My database is made up of those three values, and I created it with PHPMyAdmin. But if it were a problem with the database, would it return a parse error?