Why am I getting this error

PHP
1

I am building my first PHP based application, and I ran into a problem.

This is a page where they get to add jokes to the database, I haven’t added the code to the part where it ads yet but I built it so it checks if a joke has been submitted, it shows a message, if not then it shows a form. However I keep getting this message as an error:

Parse error: parse error in C:\\wamp\\www\	esting\	est.php on line 38

This is my code:

<html>
    <head>
    <title>Add a joke!</title>
    <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" />
           </head>
           <body>
           <?php
           if(!isset($_GET['submit'])):
               ?>

               <div class="wrapper">
	<h2 class="test">Submit Your Own Joke!</h2>
 
	<form class="simple-form" action="" method="" name="">
		<label class="label">Name:</label>
		<input type="text" name="input-1" class="inputfield" />
 
		<label class="label">E-mail:</label>
		<input type="text" name="input-2" class="inputfield" />

                <label class="label">Joke Text:</label>
                <textarea name="input-2" id="input-2" cols="29" rows="9">
Enter your joke here...</textarea>
 
		<input type="submit" name="submit" class="submit" value="Add the Joke!">
	</form>
               </div>
               <?php else: ?>
               <h2>Your Joke has been placed in Que for Moderation,<br />
                   If you followed the guidelines, then it will be added<br />
                   shortly. Thank you for your submission!</h2>
               <? endif; ?>



           </body>
</html>

Thanks in advance!

2

Oh wow, thank you so much. Didn’t think that could of caused an error.

3

The parse error is because PHP is expecting an endif, but it’s not seeing one.

I suspect that it’s because you haven’t properly declared the php code block for your the endif statement.

Try using <?php instead of <?