Parse errors - Unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING

Hello,

I am extremely new to coding in PHP and would appreciate if I could get some assistance on an error I'm receiving in one of my template files. I am getting this error:

PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in header_sgs.html

on this code:

<?php
include '\template\navbar.html';

$fullPath = explode('/', $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);
echo "The foldername $fullPath[0]";
echo "The filename $fullPath[1]";
if (file_exists('\template\'.$fullPath[1].'.html')) {
include 'c:\inetpub\webroot\soa\template\'.$fullPath[1].'.html';
} else if (file_exists('\template\'.$fullPath[2].'.html')) {
include 'c:\inetpub\webroot\soa\template\'.$fullPath[2].'.html';
}else{
echo "<ul id=\"secondaryNav\" ></ul>";
}

?>

<div id="page">
<!-- BEGIN PAGE CONTENT -->
<?php

if (file_exists("\Images\".$fullPath[1].".gif")) {
echo "<img src="\Images\".$fullPath[1].".gif\" alt=\"".$fullPath[1]."\" />";
}else if (file_exists('\Images\'.$fullPath[1].'.jpg')) {
echo "<img src="\Images\".$fullPath[1].".jpg\" alt=\"".$fullPath[1]."\" />";
}

?>

It says it's failing on the first "if(file_exists...)" piece, but unfortunately, I'm too new to this to understand why it's failing. Help would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers,
Sheel Shah

Hi sheel331, welcome to the forums
It's easy to get lost when escaping and concatenating.
PHP considers text that's not in quotes to be PHP code, Variables start with $, constants don't.
Take a close look at

I find it helpful to use whitespace in my code, Both for indentation and separation. eg. instead of
something more like
it makes the code easier to read for me.

BTW, if you put your code inside BBtags, the color syntax highlighting will help.