syntax error, unexpected 'Â Â Â Â ' (T_STRING) - php

Question

Why does my PHP mailing code always give:
syntax error, unexpected 'Â Â Â Â ' (T_STRING) in C:\xampp\htdocs\GSP\members.php on line 4
<?php
if(!isset($_POST['email'])) {
     
    $email_to = 'kennydharmawan#gmail.com'; //this is line 4
    $email_subject = "GSP Rent Order";
     
     
    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($_POST['name']) ||
        !isset($_POST['email']) ||
        !isset($_POST['unit']) ||
        !isset($_POST['startdate']) ||
!isset($_POST['enddate']) ||
        !isset($_POST['telephone']) ||
!isset($_POST['rname']) ||
!isset($_POST['city']) ||
!isset($_POST['adress'])) {
        died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.');      
    }
     
    $name = $_POST['name'];
    $email_from = $_POST['email'];
    $unit = $_POST['unit'];
    $startdate = $_POST['startdate'];
$enddate = $_POST['enddate'];
    $telephone = $_POST['telephone'];
$rname = $_POST['rname'];
$city = $_POST['city'];
$adress = $_POST['adress'];
     
    $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 />';
  }
    $string_exp = "/^[A-Za-z .'-]+$/";
$phone_exp = "/^[1-9][0-9]{0,15}$/";
  if(!preg_match($string_exp,$name)) {
    $error_message .= 'The Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
  if(!preg_match($string_exp,$rname)) {
    $error_message .= 'The Recipient Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
if(!preg_match($string_exp,$city)) {
    $error_message .= 'The City you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
if(!preg_match($phone_exp,$telephone)) {
    $error_message .= 'The Phone Number you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
  if(strlen($adress) < 2) {
    $error_message .= 'The Adress you entered do not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
list($dd,$mm,$yyyy) = explode('/',$startdate);
if (!checkdate($mm,$dd,$yyyy)) {
$error_message .= 'The Start Date you entered do not appear to be valid.<br />';
}
list($dd,$mm,$yyyy) = explode('/',$enddate);
if (!checkdate($mm,$dd,$yyyy)) {
$error_message .= 'The End Date you entered do not appear to be valid.<br />';
}
  if(strlen($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);
    }
     
    $email_message .= "Name: ".clean_string($name)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Unit: ".clean_string($unit)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Start Date: ".clean_string($startdate)."\n";
    $email_message .= "End Date: ".clean_string($enddate)."\n";
$email_message .= "Telephone Number: ".clean_string($telephone)."\n";
$email_message .= "Recipient Name: ".clean_string($rname)."\n";
$email_message .= "Recipient City: ".clean_string($city)."\n";
$email_message .= "Recipient Adress: ".clean_string($adress)."\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 contacting us. We will be in touch with you very soon."
}
?>
Why does it always keep saying this error?

Answer 1

Your problem is that the PHP file has been saved with exotic white space characters -- ie not standard spaces, but some other characters that are rendered as spaces (or even not shown at all), but are unparseable by PHP.
Delete all the white space characters on lines 3 and 4, re-type them, and save the file. (that's all white space, including line feeds and spaces between words)
This should solve the problem.
If after doing this, you still get the error, but on a different line, then you will need to repeat the process for that line too.

Answer 2

I see some errors in your code:
Try replacing:
$email_to = 'kennydharmawan#gmail.com';
With:
$email_to = "kennydharmawan#gmail.com";
And in this line:
echo "Thank you for contacting us. We will be in touch with you very soon."
Your are missing an ";", so fixed it:
echo "Thank you for contacting us. We will be in touch with you very soon.";
PS: Try replacing all your single quotes with double quotes( '' with "") i all your strings vars ;)
Saludos.