You forgot to close a parenthesis, so from the last open parenthesis, PHP considers all the code that follows as part of a specific block (condition, arguments of functions etc) that does not end. You ...

Ok, so I just started teaching myself PHP. I am developing a simple user info form for my university club hosted on my MacOS X Powermac G4 MDD, and plan to add features and expand it gradually.

Note: PHP is a simple program that asks for much attention. You should not have any problem with it if you pay enough attention to the logical flow of the program.