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Good Day All,

Trying to set up a banner/ad rotator in a custom island.

When i add the code and submit, I get an error message:
?> ?>
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in /var/www/html/forum/cache_builders/custom/portal_box_109.php on line 2

I put the code in

/* PHP CODE HERE, IF NECESSARY */
<?php
$banner1 = '<a href="http://www.pianosupplies.com/piano/lamps.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://pianoworld.com/wp-content/Store_Stuff/images/thumbs/GPLED22D2thumb.jpg" alt="Piano Lamp LED" title="BANNER1_TITLE"></a>';
$banner2 = '<a href="http://www.pianosupplies.com/piano/scarves.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://pianoworld.com/wp-content/Store_Stuff/images/thumbs/Pashmina_Scarfs_sm.jpg" alt="Music Theme Scarves" title="BANNER2_TITLE"></a>';
$banner3 = '<a href="http://www.pianosupplies.com/piano/Caster_Cups_Piano.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://pianoworld.com/wp-content/Store_Stuff/images/thumbs/Caster-Cups-Mediumthumb.jpg" alt="Caster Cups for Pianos" title="BANNER3_TITLE"></a>';
$banner4 = '<a href="http://www.pianosupplies.com/piano/PianoWire.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://pianoworld.com/wp-content/Store_Stuff/images/thumbs/thumb_MapesWire.jpg" alt="Piano Wire Music Wire Piano Strings" title="BANNER4_TITLE"></a>';
$banners = array($banner1, $banner2, $banner3, $banner4);
shuffle($banners);
?>

Then I ad the snippet to call the code here:

/* DO NOT CHANGE THE LINE BELOW */
$body = <<<EOF

<div>
<?php print $banners[0] ?>
</div>

Any idea what I'm doing wrong, or what I should do differently?

As always, thank you for any help.

Best,
Frank B.

Remove the PHP open/close tags from the "PHP CODE HERE, IF NECESSARY" area, the data is already stored with proper formatting.

Thank you Gizmo, so easy when you know the right way to do it :-)
Works fine now.

It happens to the best of us at times; I'm glad it got sorted so easy