PHP -an error message I get 1

[lupidol]

Hi everyone,
This is my PHP script

<?php
$con=mysqli_connect("localhost","root","rootpass","dbname");
if (mysqli_connect_errno($con))
  {
    <p class="SQLconnect">
		echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: " . mysqli_connect_error();
    </p>
  }
else
	{
		echo "Success connecting to MySQL! " ;
	}
?>

When I run it I get the following error message:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in C:\xampp\htdocs\tiv oni\scripts\tivoni_connect.php on line 5]

Can anyone tell me please why am I getting hat error?
Thanks

 

[jpadie]

You are including raw HTML in your php. You need to use echo or print to output HTML or close/open php tags

So put the <p....></p> tags inside the echo statement.

 

[vacunita]

You can't place HTML directly within PHP. Its not valid. You'll need to use an echo, or print to output HTML.

 <?php
$con=mysqli_connect("localhost","root","rootpass","dbname");
if (mysqli_connect_errno($con))
  {
   [b] <p class="SQLconnect">[/b]
		echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: " . mysqli_connect_error();
    [b]</p>[/b]
  }
else
	{
		echo "Success connecting to MySQL! " ;
	}
?>

Something like:

 <?php
$con=mysqli_connect("localhost","root","rootpass","dbname");
if (mysqli_connect_errno($con))
  {
  [b] echo'<p class="SQLconnect"> Failed to connect to MySQL: ' . mysqli_connect_error() . '</p>';[/b]
  }
else
	{
		echo "Success connecting to MySQL! " ;
	}
?>

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[lupidol]

Thanks a lot jpadie !