title: Parse Error in unexpected T_Variable. Subscription Mail Form
body: <p>So I have this form.</p>
  
  <p>Its a very simple mail/newsletter form.</p>
  
  <pre><code>  &lt;form action="http://localhost/website/subscribe.php" method="POST" id="signup_form"&gt;
    &lt;label for="email"&gt;&lt;p id = "subText"&gt;Subscribe&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/label&gt;
    &lt;input type="text" name="email" size="30" class="required email txtEmail" placeholder = "Enter Email Address"&gt;
    &lt;input type="submit" value="Go" name="submit" class = "goButton"/&gt;
    &lt;/form&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and I have this subscribe.php file.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  if(isset($_POST['email']))
  {
      // EDIT THE 2 LINES BELOW AS REQUIRED
      $email_to = "email@email.com";
      $email_subject = "Subscription";
  
      function died($error)
      {
          // your error code can go here
          echo "We are very sorry, but there were error(s) found with the form you submitted. ";
          echo "These errors appear below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;";
          echo $error."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;";
          echo "Please go back and fix these errors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;";
          die();
      }
  
      // validation expected data exists
      if( !isset($_POST['email']))
      {
          died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.');       
      }
  
      $email_from = $_POST['email']; // required
      $error_message = "";
      $email_exp = '/^[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}$/';
  
      if(!preg_match($email_exp,$email_from))
      {
          $error_message .= 'The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.&lt;br /&gt;';
      }
  
      if(strlen($error_message) &gt; 0)
      {
          died($error_message);
      }
  
      $email_message = "Form details below.\n\n";
  
      function clean_string($string)
      {
          $bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");
          return str_replace($bad,"",$string);
      }
  
      $email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."\n";
  
      // create email headers
      $headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n".
                 'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" .
                 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
      @mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);  
  ?&gt;
  &lt;!-- include your own success html here --&gt;
  Thank you for contacting us. We will be in touch with you very soon.
  &lt;?php
  }
  ?&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>That I found <a href="http://www.freecontactform.com/email_form.php" rel="nofollow">here</a>, I just edited it a bit to fit my form. I'm really new to PHP and I'm still in the practice phase.</p>
  
  <p>The error I get is </p>
  
  <pre><code>PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /home/techstars05/www/website/subscribe.php on line 6, referer: http://localhost/website/index.html
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm using sublime text 2 to edit the codes and I noticed that "if(isset($_POST['email']))"'s 'if' is of a different color from the other ifs from the subscribe.php file. Its pink while the others are violet-ish. I'm not really sure what does mean, I tried tracing the code but to my newbie eyes it looks quite fine. </p>
  
  <p>TIA </p>