else error me message Options

[Mindapolis]

could someone help me understand this error message? The code is:

CODE

$errors=array();
    if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
    validate_input();
      else {
        display_form();    
    }
    }

the error message is:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ELSE in /home/content/a/u/n/auntievics/html/checkOut.php on line 38

[Brian Chandler]

Yes, you have

CODE

$errors=array();
    if(isset($_POST['submit']))

    {   validate_input();

//** no closing } !!

      else {
        display_form();    
    }
    }

which is why the 'else' is unexpected. The php error messages are all wrong, because they refer to php keyword 'xyz' by the internal compiler token, which is something like T_XYZ.

[Mindapolis]

that helped. Thank you so much for the explanation of the error message