wierd error

[Nikola Skoric]

I have this very simple PHP script:

#!/usr/local/bin/php -q

<?php
$post="From: \"Burek\" <bu***@burek.hr>\\nSubject: foobar\\nNewsgroups:
hr.test\\n\\nNesto, nesto.';

$command="echo -ne \"mode reader\\npost\\n" . $post . "\\n.\\nquit\\n\"
| nc news.carnet.hr 119\n";
echo $command;
exec($command);
?>

And it fails to execute:
PHP Parse error: parse error in /home/users/n/nick/bin/postFAQ.php on
line 6

I have dissected the script and found that when I write it this way:
$command=
"echo"
. " -ne \"mode reader\\npost\\n" . $post . "\\n.\\nquit\\n\" | nc
news.carnet.hr 119\n";
Then the error is on the line where "echo" is. Now, what am I missing?

--
"Now the storm has passed over me
I'm left to drift on a dead calm sea
And watch her forever through the cracks in the beams
Nailed across the doorways of the bedrooms of my dreams"

[Syl]

Nikola Skoric wrote:

I have this very simple PHP script:

#!/usr/local/bin/php -q

<?php
$post="From: \"Burek\" <bu***@burek.hr>\\nSubject: foobar\\nNewsgroups:
hr.test\\n\\nNesto, nesto.';

$command="echo -ne \"mode reader\\npost\\n" . $post . "\\n.\\nquit\\n\"
| nc news.carnet.hr 119\n";
echo $command;
exec($command);
?>

And it fails to execute:
PHP Parse error: parse error in /home/users/n/nick/bin/postFAQ.php on
line 6

I have dissected the script and found that when I write it this way:
$command=
"echo"
. " -ne \"mode reader\\npost\\n" . $post . "\\n.\\nquit\\n\" | nc
news.carnet.hr 119\n";
Then the error is on the line where "echo" is. Now, what am I missing?

try this :

$command="echo -ne 'mode reader\\npost\\n' . $post . '\\n\\nquit\\n\'
| nc news.carnet.hr 119\n";
also - why do you the dot operator here :
"\\n.\\nquit\\n\"

[Nikola Skoric]

Dana 5 Jun 2006 19:14:07 -0700,
Syl <da**********@gmail.com> kaze:

try this :

$command="echo -ne 'mode reader\\npost\\n' . $post . '\\n\\nquit\\n\'
| nc news.carnet.hr 119\n";
Well, that won't work. The code I put in $comand variable is not PHP code
but bash code.
also - why do you the dot operator here :
"\\n.\\nquit\\n\"

That's not dot operator but NNTP command signalising end of article...

--
"Now the storm has passed over me
I'm left to drift on a dead calm sea
And watch her forever through the cracks in the beams
Nailed across the doorways of the bedrooms of my dreams"

[Jerry Stuckle]

Nikola Skoric wrote:

I have this very simple PHP script:

#!/usr/local/bin/php -q

<?php
$post="From: \"Burek\" <bu***@burek.hr>\\nSubject: foobar\\nNewsgroups:
hr.test\\n\\nNesto, nesto.';

$command="echo -ne \"mode reader\\npost\\n" . $post . "\\n.\\nquit\\n\"
| nc news.carnet.hr 119\n";
echo $command;
exec($command);
?>

And it fails to execute:
PHP Parse error: parse error in /home/users/n/nick/bin/postFAQ.php on
line 6

I have dissected the script and found that when I write it this way:
$command=
"echo"
. " -ne \"mode reader\\npost\\n" . $post . "\\n.\\nquit\\n\" | nc
news.carnet.hr 119\n";
Then the error is on the line where "echo" is. Now, what am I missing?

Nikola,

Check your file to see if you possibly have mismatched double quotes earlier in
your file (or in a file which includes this one).

Normally when I see this it means I've screwed up and had mismatched quotes
earlier in the file.

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JDS Computer Training Corp.
js*******@attglobal.net
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[Nikola Skoric]

Dana Tue, 06 Jun 2006 07:02:33 -0400,
Jerry Stuckle <js*******@attglobal.net> kaze:

Check your file to see if you possibly have mismatched double quotes earlier in
your file (or in a file which includes this one).

Normally when I see this it means I've screwed up and had mismatched quotes
earlier in the file.

Nope, I pasted the whole script, and the script is executed from command
line, it is not included...

--
"Now the storm has passed over me
I'm left to drift on a dead calm sea
And watch her forever through the cracks in the beams
Nailed across the doorways of the bedrooms of my dreams"

[Jerry Stuckle]

Nikola Skoric wrote:

I have this very simple PHP script:

#!/usr/local/bin/php -q

<?php
$post="From: \"Burek\" <bu***@burek.hr>\\nSubject: foobar\\nNewsgroups:
hr.test\\n\\nNesto, nesto.';

$command="echo -ne \"mode reader\\npost\\n" . $post . "\\n.\\nquit\\n\"
| nc news.carnet.hr 119\n";
echo $command;
exec($command);
?>

And it fails to execute:
PHP Parse error: parse error in /home/users/n/nick/bin/postFAQ.php on
line 6

I have dissected the script and found that when I write it this way:
$command=
"echo"
. " -ne \"mode reader\\npost\\n" . $post . "\\n.\\nquit\\n\" | nc
news.carnet.hr 119\n";
Then the error is on the line where "echo" is. Now, what am I missing?

OK, check your first line. You start the string with a " but end it with a '.

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Remove the "x" from my email address
Jerry Stuckle
JDS Computer Training Corp.
js*******@attglobal.net
==================

[Nikola Skoric]

In article <k6******************************@comcast.com>,
js*******@attglobal.net says...

OK, check your first line. You start the string with a " but end it with a '.

I refuse to belive this... but, yes, you are right. A week of debugging
one single quote. Hope it won't happen again. Thanks a bunch.

--
"Now the storm has passed over me
I'm left to drift on a dead calm sea
And watch her forever through the cracks in the beams
Nailed across the doorways of the bedrooms of my dreams"

[Rik]

Nikola Skoric wrote:

In article <k6******************************@comcast.com>,
js*******@attglobal.net says...

OK, check your first line. You start the string with a " but end it
with a '.

I refuse to belive this... but, yes, you are right. A week of
debugging
one single quote. Hope it won't happen again. Thanks a bunch.

Many editors with syntax highlighting could have shown you this in a
heartbeat. Which editor do you use?

Grtz,
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Rik Wasmus