PHP help

[MarsBar]

Thanks to Bendy I can now start work on my website. Never looked at PHP before so going in totally blind. Got this error message.

[Sparks!]

Open up in Dreamweaver or similar editor, scroll to line 661 and tell us what it says
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[Frost]

judging byt he fact its only 661 lines long and that you say you dont know what your doing i am assuming that you are attempting to modify someone elses code.

This can often be more troublesome than doing it yourself from scratch!

it is looking to declare clear_parse() on line 661 after it has allready been decalred. i dont know php well enough to say if this is a method, function or object sound liek it is all part of a complex series of functions to perform tasks which you have edited and it now trying to decalre a variable twice. make sure any variables are claerd out before they are reused, especially if they relate to database connectivity.

[tgabber]

If you are a programmer, you'd understand the error message, if you're not a programmer you shouldn't be playing around with PHP as your first language.

If you insist on playing around with PHP, get a good book or try one of the numerous web tutorials.

Don't mean to be unhelpful, but your original question suggests you are seriously out of your depth.
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[Frost]

I am a programmer, and i am constantly out of my depth and allways have been. often the best way to learn how to swim is to jump into the sea!

[Sparks!]

Tgabber, with this sort of stuff, jumping in at the deep end is a good way to learn in my opinion. Worked for me with HTML and CSS ( a bit) and I have modded many PHP scripts and have installed numerous add ons to my own forum in PHP yet I don't even understand the code.

Bit of general web coding knowledge and some playing around and you pick things up
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[tgabber]

[Sparks!]

Yeah which is why he is asking for help... then he'll learn this bit and continue to learn (the hard way maybe) it's how I learn, I can't be arsed with books or anything other than for reference. If I want to do something specific I go learn it there and then, nothing more nothing less, learn as I require something done.. which is what MarsBar seems to be doing here so hopefully he'll be alright with it, but obviously as anyone, will need a bit of help...

Personally, despite doing lots of PHP coding, I don't know what that error means, I could most probably ( think I have actually... ) fix it, but not without seeing code and playing around...

Maybe not the best way, but meh...
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[tgabber]

Ok, well I'll just leave it to other people to help.

I'm just in a bad mood cos of the RAC thing (see other thread...)
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[MarsBar]

[MarsBar]

So nobody can help me then?

[Bendy]

TBH it's rather hard to help when given a random bit of code, and that's it.

What is it you're trying to install?