Sessions & Cookies

[Man1c M0g]

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[hunterxaz]

Hello, this tutorial seems to be broken.

I get:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in /home/backline/public_html/hunter/php/tutorials/sessions/index.php on line 3

The line specifically:

echo ‘Welcome to our sessions test! Your example username can be pogo!’;

Entire code:

<?
session_start();
echo ‘Welcome to our sessions test! Your example username can be pogo!’;
$_SESSION [‘username’] = ‘pogo’;
echo ‘<a href=”page2.php”>Click here to have a session</a>’;
?>

[Tamlin]

I don't really know about PHP, but from what I've read this error generally occurs due to the wrong type of quote marks being used. I notice the code contains so-called "smart" quotes, so try replacing ‘ and ’ with ' (and ” with ").
It might not work but it's worth a try.