OfficialComments Plugin error message

I’ve been trying to implement Brett Taylor’s Official Comments plugin, but I’ve run into a problem with the PHP that I can’t seem to troubleshoot.

I’ve activated the plugin and added the class “commentOfficialUser” to the stylesheet, then I edited comments.php to include the following inside the loop:


<?php if(is_wpuser_comment() != 2)
echo "<li class="<?php echo $oddcomment; ?>" id="comment-<?php comment_ID() ?> ">";
else echo "<li class="<?php echo ' commentOfficialUser '; ?>" id="comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>">" ?>


I’m trying to test if user #2 (me) is the user, if not then use the alternating backgrounds as normal, but if it is user #2, then use the “commentOfficialUser” class (which adds a different border — I want to keep the alternating background colors).

Unfortunately, I get a parse error about an unexpected “?” in the line and I’m lost as to why. I’ve searched and found 6-7 topics which relate to this subject, but either they are closed with the solution of “used Brett’s plugin” or they are unresolved after several months…

TIA,
gpence