unexpected T_IF error

[catch2948]

I have looked through several posts, but as of yet, I cannot find an answer to my particular problem, which is as follows:

I have written a small bit of code that generates a random number, based on a test of another random number. Code is as follows:

$x = mt_rand(1,10)
if ($x == 5) {
$xb = mt_rand(1,5);
}
else {
$xb = 0;
}

However, everytime the script is executed, if returns the following error: Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_IF

I have tried several variations of this code, but no matter how I change it, it still keeps returning that same error.

Can anyone please help?

Thanks in advance for your replies :-)

[phpologist]

you're missing a semi-colon after the first line :)

[catch2948]

Shazbot!

It's always the simple stuff that gets ya :-/

Thanks