There is a Parse error: syntax error unexpected $end on my login page

Question

I have written this code for my login page..!! the issue is this it is giving syntax error unexpected $end on line 89 which is last line of my code. i have tried all available solutions but nothing happened. the variables and queries are just fine i have checked them thoroughly . P.S. i am using notepad++ IDE so syntax error is minimum (*brackets open close). Thanks in advance.!!!!

  <?php session_start();
if(isset($_COOKIE["usNick"]) && isset($_COOKIE["usPass"])){ ?>
    <META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="0;URL=myaccount.php">
<?php 
    exit();
}

$display_error = "";
$username = "";

if ($_POST['username']) {
    $username = $_POST['username'];
    if( strtolower($_POST['code'])!= strtolower($_SESSION['texto'])){ 
        $display_error = "* Security Code Error"; // error language
        include ('error.php');
        exit();
    }else{
        include('includes/config.inc.php');
        $username=uc($_POST['username']);
        $pass=uc($_POST['password']);
        $password = sha1($pass);

        if ($password==NULL) {
            $display_error = "* All fields are required"; // error language
            include ('error.php');
            exit();
        }else{
            $myDb->connect();
                $query = mysql_query("SELECT username,password FROM yob_users WHERE username = '$username'") or die(mysql_error());
                $data = mysql_fetch_array($query);
            $myDb->close();
            if($data['password'] != $password) {
                $display_error = "* Please, Check your username/password."; // error language
                include ('error.php');
                exit();
            }else{
                $myDb->connect();
                    $query = mysql_query("SELECT username,password FROM yob_users WHERE username = '$username'") or die(mysql_error());
                    $row = mysql_fetch_array($query);
                $myDb->close();
                $nicke=$row['username'];
                $passe=$row['password'];
                setcookie("usNick",$nicke,time()+7776000);
                setcookie("usPass",$passe,time()+7776000);
                $lastlogdate = date("F j, Y - g:i a");
                $lastip = getRealIP();
                $myDb->connect();
                    $querybt = "UPDATE yob_users SET lastlogdate='$lastlogdate', lastiplog='$lastip' WHERE username='$nicke'";
                    mysql_query($querybt) or die(mysql_error());
                $myDb->close(); ?> 
                <META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="0;URL=myaccount.php">
<?
            }
        }
    }
}else{ 
    include ('header.php'); 
?>
        <div id="content">
            <p class="error"><?php echo $display_error;?></p>

          <form action="login.php" method="post" class="f-wrap-1">
          <div class="req"><a href="signup.php">Not Registered?</a><br /><a href="recoverpass.php">Forgot your Password?</a></div>
          <fieldset>

          <h3>Member Login</h3>

            <label for="firstname"><b>Username:</b>
            <input id="username" name="username" type="text" class="f-name" autocomplete="off" tabindex="1" /><br />
            </label>
            <label for="password"><b>Password:</b>
            <input id="password" name="password" type="password" class="f-name" autocomplete="off" tabindex="2" /><br />
            </label>
            <label for="code"><b>Security Code:</b>
            <input id="code" name="code" type="text" class="f-name" autocomplete="off" tabindex="3" /><br />
            </label>
            <label for="code2"><b>&nbsp;</b>
            <img src="image.php?<?php echo $res; ?>" /><br />
            </label>
            <div class="f-submit-wrap">
            <input type="submit" value="Submit" class="f-submit" tabindex="4" /><br />
            </div>
            </fieldset>
            </form>
        </div>
<?php
include ('footer.php'); 
}
?>

Answer 1

You have a <? tag on line 52 of your posted code.

That is short tag syntax. Not having short open tags set/on, will cause that error.

So change it to <?php and you should be good to go.

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• An insight.

Should you later decide to use <?=
That is also short tag syntax which is equivalent to <?php echo in PHP.

Again, if short tags are not set, that would need to be <?php echo, .

Should there be any other <? tags, change them all to <?php.

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To read up on how to enable short tags, visit this Q&A on Stack:

• How to enable PHP short tags?

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Footnotes:

Make sure your included files also do not contain short tags.