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"Damn PHP..."

Ok, I'm teaching myself php as I go along here, so this could be a really obvious error that i've missed, but anyway...

I'm editing a file I've stole of Rob that displays the contents of a folder (like the default page apache throws out if their isnt an index.*) and have to a problem. The file is called index.php, so i dont wont it to list index.php in the file listings, so the easiest way to do it (or so i thought) is to just leave a space if the file is index.php..

so, i come up with this...

echo("");
} else {
echo "">"
} ?>

To talk you through it, if the file is index php, then leave blank. Otherwise, output (if the file is a directory it needs to add a / to the end of the url because of the way my servers set up, ie. wrong) then output the filename and .

Sounds easy enough, but I cant see for the life of me what's up with that line, when i run the page i get the error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '?' in c:program filesapache groupapachehtdocsindex.php on line 84

HEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLPPPPPP!!!!!!

Heh, believe me, I know the feeling.

Cheers, what i wrote makes no sense at all now, yet meade perfect sense when i wrote it...

echo "">"


You've got how to output variables mixed up. The bit you're running here is actually inside PHP, so to output the variable you should just put $var, not

HINT:

is just a quick way of writing

So, it should be this:

echo "$file";

Ok, I'm teaching myself php as I go along here, so this could be a really obvious error that i've missed, but anyway...

I'm editing a file I've stole of Rob that displays the contents of a folder (like the default page apache throws out if their isnt an index.*) and have to a problem. The file is called index.php, so i dont wont it to list index.php in the file listings, so the easiest way to do it (or so i thought) is to just leave a space if the file is index.php..

so, i come up with this...

echo("");
} else {
echo "">"
} ?>

To talk you through it, if the file is index php, then leave blank. Otherwise, output (if the file is a directory it needs to add a / to the end of the url because of the way my servers set up, ie. wrong) then output the filename and .

Sounds easy enough, but I cant see for the life of me what's up with that line, when i run the page i get the error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '?' in c:program filesapache groupapachehtdocsindex.php on line 84

HEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLPPPPPP!!!!!!