Title: Custom field parse error
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Custom field parse error

 *  Resolved [D12Eminem989](https://wordpress.org/support/users/d12eminem989/)
 * (@d12eminem989)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-field-parse-error/)
 * I am trying to use the following code in my theme, but am returning an error 
   listed bellow:
 * The Code:
    `<?php $my_values = get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'tape_popup', true );
   if( $my_values ) { echo "<form><input type="button" value="Popup the MP3 Player"
   onClick="javascript:popUp('http://www.mydomain.com/popup/' . $my_values . '.html')"
   ></form>"; } else { echo 'No popup yet'; } ?>
 * The Error:
    `Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or';'
   in /home/user/public_html/wp-content/themes/Trill/single.php on line 47`
 * Any help would be much appreciated!

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 *  [vtxyzzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtxyzzy/)
 * (@vtxyzzy)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-field-parse-error/#post-2392017)
 * Your echo statement is placing quotes inside quotes without escaping them. I 
   think this is what you want:
 *     ```
       echo "<form><input type=\"button\" value=\"Popup the MP3 Player\" onClick=\"javascript:popUp('http://www.mydomain.com/popup/" . $my_values . ".html')\"></form>";
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [D12Eminem989](https://wordpress.org/support/users/d12eminem989/)
 * (@d12eminem989)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-field-parse-error/#post-2392046)
 * That worked great, thank you very much! 🙂

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-field-parse-error/#post-2392046)
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