Add a form : Parse error unexpected curly braces

In your first line you have 3 opening parentheses and 2 closing it. Get rid of the first opening one. Tell me if that was it.

Thanks, still gets me a loop redirection error message from Chrome.

Is this all your code for this page? Cause you are missing the closing curly braces at the end of the code.

<?php } ?>

it would close your else serie of actions.

no I got this at the bottom of the page under the form closing tag.

```<?php } else { ?>

    <p>I&rsquo;d love to hear from you! Please complete the form below. </p>
    <form method="post" action="contact.php">
        <table>
                <tr>
                    <th>
                <label for="name">Name</label>
                    </th>
                    <td>
                    <input type="text" name="name" id="name">
                    </td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <th>
                <label for="email">Email</label>
                    </th>
                    <td>
                    <input type="text" name="email" id="email">
                    </td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <th>
                <label for="message">Message</label>
                    </th>
                    <td>
                    <textarea  name="message" id="message"></textarea>
                    </td>
                </tr>
        </table>
        <input type="submit" value="Send">
    </form>
    <?php } ?>```

Here is the entire page I find it weird (I've erased the isset function for now for test purposes)

if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"]  == "POST") {
    $name = $_POST["name"];
    $email = $_POST["email"];
    $message = $_POST["message"];
    $email_body = "";

    $email_body = $email_body . "Name: " . $name . "\n";
    $email_body = $email_body . "Email: " . $email . "\n";
    $email_body = $email_body . "Message: " . $message;
    echo $email_body;

}
// TODO : SEND EMAIL

header("Location: contact.php?status=thanks");
exit;


?>
<?php 
$pageTitle = "Contact Mike";
$section = "contact";

include('Include/Header.php'); ?>

<div>

    <div class= "wrapper">
        <h1 align="center">Contact</h1>

        <?php if ( $_GET["status"] == "thanks") { ?>

            <p> Thanks for your email, I&rsquo;ll be in touch!  </p>

    <?php   } else { ?>         


        <p>I&rsquo;d love to hear from you! Please complete the form below. </p>
        <form method="post" action="contact.php">
            <table>
                    <tr>
                        <th>
                    <label for="name">Name</label>
                        </th>
                        <td>
                        <input type="text" name="name" id="name">
                        </td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <th>
                    <label for="email">Email</label>
                        </th>
                        <td>
                        <input type="text" name="email" id="email">
                        </td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <th>
                    <label for="message">Message</label>
                        </th>
                        <td>
                        <textarea  name="message" id="message"></textarea>
                        </td>
                    </tr>
            </table>
            <input type="submit" value="Send">
        </form>
        <?php } ?>

    </div>
</div>

<?php include('Include/Footer.php'); ?>```

this webpage has a redirect loop

on chrome. apparently it has to do with pages calling themselves...

Yea well I've done that and still get the error so I think it might have to do with the general structure and a missing statement at the beginning of the page. Many thanks anyway.

i finally got it!!! the problem was that my curly closing braket was before and not after the header and exit commands!!! What a f****r am I??? :) I feel like I am blind or something. THANKS ANYWAY!!!!!!!!!!

Man,you re pretty advanced....only in a few months..and you already sound like you re working for treehouse or sthg...lol :)

Amazing story Giovanni, where are you from? I have no plans of becoming a webmaster, but who knows? I would not dislike the experience I believe. I agree the site is quite cool and I hope I can get up to the iOS dev part cause it would be awesome for me to develop that kind of apps. I am also interested in the design part actually, My ultimate objective would be to be fully autonomous IT/design wise. I partly took this course out of disappointement on IT deliveries to be honest and thinking it could not be so complicated (to fall in such delays...) and the more I study the more I feel like there is abuse in the profession (I know I am speaking very frankly here) and I cannot wait to be really autonomous or at least know exactly the worth of each type of effort and so on. I also partly took this course cause I feel like I am learning to read, I feel this century will be the one of the digital fracture like reading was during last century and I know what side I want to be on... I hope I'll see you around on the site, even though I see no social media buttons around :) Again very cool story. I believe the internet gives to all people education chances like never before. And you Giovanni and Treehouse are just perfect examples.

Cheers!

I've had severe delays on several projects that I specified (very precisely). I still don't know today if it was for lack of competences or lack of seriousness (like taking the money and working on something else) because these projects were outsourced and I did have access to the developers.

For the design part, I have created some designs in the past but I just want to be fully operational on photoshop and so on.

Well, I believe that in the majority, it's a lack of competences (and maybe a bit of seriousness, but due to the lack of competences :P). I say it because I had the same experience, but from the other point of view.

It happened a few times in the past, were I had opportunities to encounter potential clients. They had a project, criterias and all...and I thought I was capable of doing it! But a half-knowledge is more dangerous than no knowledge at all. You always say yes, because you don't know if you can really do it, but you think that internet will give you a magical shortcut to do it, and you will be able to be back on your feet. Wrong!

You try, despair, and finally you know that you didn't do a good job. The client is, of course, not satisfied (well, I wasn't paid for it, so no big deal for them). Personnaly it affects me, I hate to "not be able to". That's when I got consciousness of what I lacked: experience of course, but solid basics, and to accept that I can't do everything, even if I want. I needed priorities.

I started back from scratch, and was determined to "know what I am doing" before accepting anything. That's when I was lucky to discover Treehouse at this exact same time.

And you know what, I learned a lot more than I was expecting to find here ^^.

Some good examples are:

• Basics Foundations
• Logo Design Basics
• Soft Skills

There are others (I leave you to look for it), but those were really helpful. That's some extra knowledge I needed, and it got me nice experiences. I met new partners, who like what I did and could do (and not what I would do or might do), and I was "able to" do what they needed. Great bonus for self-estim, and solid partnerships for the future.

If you have the opportunity, a good way to develop solid partnerships is events like the Startup Week End. In my case it's a good place to develop a network, meet interesting people to exchange and create partnerships, and even more, to see "in real time" on a (fictive) project what your potential partners are capable of.

That might be the right view, programming might be more difficult than it appears in many cases. My doubt is that in both cases it was supposed to be trained and educated professionals. Anyway, I like your approach of Treehouse.