why am I getting a parse error?

script check

[electricocean]

i made this guestbook code and I tried it but it said:
'Parse error: parse error in /home/www/guestbook/addentry.php on line 83'

Here is line 83:

fwrite ($fp, "<table border='1' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' bgcolor='990000' width='250'><tr><td bgcolor='666666'><table border='0' cellpadding='4' cellspacing='0' width='250' cellspacing='0'><tr><td><table width='250'><tr><td colspan='2' align='right'><font face='courier' size='1' color='#FFFFFF'> $name [<a href="mailto:$email">$email</a>] [<A href="$url" target='_NEW'>$url</a>] </td></tr><tr><td width='20'><font face='courier' size='1' color='#FFFFFF'></td><td width='250'><font face='courier' size='1' color='#FFFFFF">$comments</td></tr>
<tr><td width='20'></td>
<td><font face='courier' size='1' color='#FFFFFF'><i>(date( 'l, F, jS Y - g:i:s A' ))</i></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><br>"); // Write the data. Use \r\n on Windows.
flock ($fp, LOCK_UN);
fclose ($fp); // Close the file.

[edited by: coopster at 1:17 am (utc) on Oct. 5, 2004]
[edit reason] edited code dump [/edit]

[Adrian2k4]

Escape the quotes within the string.
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Line 82:

fwrite ($fp, "<table border='1' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' bgcolor='990000' width='250'><tr><td bgcolor='666666'><table border='0' cellpadding='4' cellspacing='0' width='250' cellspacing='0'><tr><td><table width='250'><tr><td colspan='2' align='right'><font face='courier' size='1' color='#FFFFFF'> $name [<a href=\"mailto:$email\">$email</a>] [<A href=\"$url\" target='_NEW'>$url</a>] </td></tr><tr><td width='20'><font face='courier' size='1' color='#FFFFFF'></td><td width='250'><font face='courier' size='1' color='#FFFFFF'>$comments</td></tr>
<tr><td width='20'></td>
<td><font face='courier' size='1' color='#FFFFFF'><i>(date( 'l, F, jS Y - g:i:s A' ))</i></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><br>"); // Write the data. Use \r\n on Windows.

[edited by: Adrian2k4 at 12:35 am (utc) on Oct. 5, 2004]

[encyclo]

color='#FFFFFF[b]"[/b]>$comments

Double-quote mark should be a single-quote mark: '#FFFFFF'. A few other unescaped quotes in there, too.

What editor are you using? Does it have text highlighting? All I did was paste the script into my editor, look at line 83 and see where the highlighting went wrong.

[electricocean]

I use SimpleText on mac.

[mincklerstraat]

jedit does great highlighting and is probably macable. Highlights beginning/ending quotes-brackets-parentheses too when you put your cursor on 'em.

[Adrian2k4]

There is a very good universal IDE (integrated development environment) called Eclipse. (www.eclipse.org)
Its open source and there for free and there is a version of Eclipse that runns on MacOS.

[electricocean]

i have mac os 9