Backend of html form

Question

I need help on the backend of my html form. What I want to do is of course take the information that the user inputted on the html page that included the actual form. The page is interpreting the data in php and I would like it to send an email to myself with the information gathered. I have all of the security measures in place and as far as I can tell ,it should work. But for some reason it is not...It is giving me a syntax error on line 20. I will provide the full code of the php file that gathers the user information. I don't think I need to post the actual html form, but if it is requested I will post that as well. Thanks for the help.

 <?php
  require_once('recaptchalib.php');
  $privatekey = "aFakePrivateKey";
  $resp = recaptcha_check_answer ($privatekey,
                                $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"],
                                $_POST["recaptcha_challenge_field"],
                                $_POST["recaptcha_response_field"]);

  if (!$resp->is_valid) {
    // What happens when the CAPTCHA was entered incorrectly
    die ("The CAPTCHA wasn't entered correctly. Go back and try it again.");
  } else {





if(isset($_POST['eadrr'])) {

    $email_to = "blank@blank.com";
    $email_subject = "Customer Support";


    function died($error) {
        // your error code can go here
        echo "We are very sorry, but there were error(s) found with the form you submitted. ";
        echo "These errors appear below.<br /><br />";
        echo $error."<br /><br />";
        echo "Please go back and fix these errors.<br /><br />";
        die();
    }

    // validation expected data exists
    if(!isset($_POST['inquire']) ||
        !isset($_POST['eadrr']) ||
        !isset($_POST['mess'])) {
        died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.');       
    }

    $type = $_POST['inquire']; // required
    $email_from = $_POST['eadrr']; // required
    $comments = $_POST['mess']; // required

    $error_message = "";
    $email_exp = '/^[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}$/';
  if(!preg_match($email_exp,$email_from)) {
    $error_message .= 'The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
  if(strlen($comments) < 5) {
    $error_message .= 'The Comments you entered do not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
  if(strlen($error_message) > 0) {
    died($error_message);
  }
    $email_message = "Form details below.\n\n";

    function clean_string($string) {
      $bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");
      return str_replace($bad,"",$string);
    }
    $email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Type of Inquiry: ".clean_string($type)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Message: ".clean_string($comments)."\n";


// create email headers
$headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n".
'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
@mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);  

echo 'Thank you for your message. Based on the type of inquiry we may respond within a week.';

}


  }
?>

Error Message:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /home/a6675286/public_html/verify.php on line 20

Answer 1

Try changing this line:

died('We are sorry, but ...

tp this:

die('We are sorry, but you cannot spell

Unless of course you actually wrote a function called died()...