PHP snippet not working
<p>I'm really new to php and am having trouble debugging the following snippet.</p>

<pre><code>&lt;?php
$hintMaintain = &lt;&lt;&lt; EOT
    &lt;hr /&gt;
    &lt;div id="user_hint"&gt; ABC DE &lt;span class="status_strtolower($account['status_value'])"&gt;ucfirst($account['status_value'])&lt;/span&gt;FGH&lt;/div&gt;

    &lt;div style="margin: 0px 74px 0px 74px; text-align: center; height: 66px; width:66px; background: url('img/strtolower($maintain)hint.png') no-repeat;"&gt;
        &lt;span style="line-height: 66px; font-size: 36px; color: black;"&gt;$countdown&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;/div&gt;
EOT;

eval("\$hintMaintain = \"$hintMaintain\";");
?&gt;
&lt;!-- SOME HTML --&gt;

&lt;?php echo $hintMaintain; ?&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>This shows a server error. I haven't been able to work this out. </p>

<p>Help?
Thanks.</p>
