Does anyone know the meaning behind this php error message?

Question

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING is the message. It came up from this line of code:

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Answer 1

Use:

$query = sprintf("SELECT u.* 
                    FROM USERS u
                   WHERE u.user_name = '%s' 
                     AND u.password = '%s' 
                     AND u.user_type = '%s' ",
                   mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['user_name']),
                   mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['password']),
                   mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['user_type']) );

$result = mysql_query($query);

Reference

• sprintf