I am trying to create my own theme and I get this error message
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content\themes\Tutorial\searchform.php on line 2 in the searchform.php. Here is the code for searchform.php
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<?php
<form method="get" id="searchform" action="<?php bloginfo('home');?>/">
<div>
<input type="text" value="<?php echo wp_specialchars($s, 1); ?>" name="s" id="s" size="15" />
<input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="Search" />
</div>
</form>
?>The code that calls the searchform is on line 49 of the following code.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">
<title><?php bloginfo('name'); ?><?php wp_title(); ?></title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="<?php bloginfo('html_type'); ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo('charset'); ?>" />
<meta name="generator" content="WordPress <?php bloginfo('version'); ?>" /> <!-- leave this for stats please -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />
<link rel="alternate" type="text/xml" title="RSS .92" href="<?php bloginfo('rss_url'); ?>" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom 0.3" href="<?php bloginfo('atom_url'); ?>" />
<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>" />
<?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly&format=link'); ?>
<?php //comments_popup_script(); // off by default ?>
<?php wp_head(); ?>
</head>
<body>
<div id="header">
<h1><a href="”<?php">”><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?></a></h1>
<?php bloginfo(‘description’); ?>
</div><!--end header-->
<div id="container">
<?php if(have_posts()) : ?><?php while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div class=”post”>
<h2><a href="”<?php">” title=”<?php the_title(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<div class=”entry”>
<?php the_content(); ?>
<p class="postmetadata"><?php _e('Filed under:'); ?> <?php the_category(', ') ?> <?php _e('by'); ?> <?php the_author(); ?>
<?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?> <?php edit_post_link('Edit', ' | ', ''); ?>
</p>
</div><!--end entry-->
</div><!--end post-->
<?php endwhile; ?>
<div class=”navigation”>
<?php posts_nav_link("in between","before","after"); ?>
</div><!--end navigation-->
<?php else : ?>
<div class=”post” id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>”>
<h2><?php _e("Not Found"); ?></h2>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>
</div><!--end container-->
<div class=”sidebar”>
<ul><!-–open unordered list-->
<li id=”search”>
<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH . "/searchform.php"); ?>
<?php wp_list_pages("depth=3&title_li=<h2>Pages</h2>"); ?>
<li><h2><?php _e("Categories"); ?></h2>
<ul>
<?php wp_list_cats("sort_column=name&optioncount=1&hierarchical=0"); ?>
</ul>
</li>
<li><h2><?php _e("Archives"); ?></h2>
<ul>
<?php wp_get_archives("type=monthly"); ?>
</ul>
</li>
<?php get_links_list(); ?>
</ul>
<!--close unordered list-->
</div><!--end sidebar-->
</body>
</html> I have looked over the code many times and cannot find the problem.
Need some help please.
