unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING error

Question

i\'ve been staringly blanky at this error and can\'t seem to know what the problem is.When i run the query i get this error:

unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND

Answer 1

My issue was also within the heredoc. I had it within an if/then statement and the closing bracket directly after the semicolon. So I moved the closing bracket to its own line and issue was fixed.

I changed:

... ;}

to:

... ;
}

Answer 2

Change your code to.

<?php
$sqlupdate1 = "UPDATE table SET commodity_quantity=".$qty."WHERE user=".$rows['user'];
?>

There was syntax error in your query.

Answer 3

Try

$sqlupdate1 = "UPDATE table SET commodity_quantity=$qty WHERE user={$rows['user']} ";

You need curly brackets for array access in double quoted strings.

Answer 4

Use { before $ sign. And also add addslashes function to escape special characters.

$sqlupdate1 = "UPDATE table SET commodity_quantity=".$qty."WHERE user=".addslashes($rows['user'])."'";

Answer 5

In my case, heredoc caused the issue. There is no problem with PHP version 7.3 up. Howerver, it error with PHP 7.0.33 if you use heredoc with space.

My example code

$rexpenditure = <<<Expenditure
                  <tr>
                      <td>$row->payment_referencenumber</td>
                      <td>$row->payment_requestdate</td>
                      <td>$row->payment_description</td>
                      <td>$row->payment_fundingsource</td>
                      <td>$row->payment_agencyulo</td>
                      <td>$row->payment_agencyproject</td>
                      <td>$$row->payment_disbustment</td>
                      <td>$row->payment_payeename</td>
                      <td>$row->payment_processpayment</td>
                  </tr>
Expenditure;

It will error if there is a space on PHP 7.0.33.

Answer 6

try this

echo $sqlupdate1 = "UPDATE table SET commodity_quantity=$qty WHERE user='".$rows['user']."' ";