What does the PHP error ‘Parse error in PHP – unexpected T_variable at line x’ means?

Question

The output is in this form

Array (
     [0] => name
     [1] => email
     [2] => contact
     [3] => address 
    ) 
Array (
     [0] => sant
     [1] => sant@gmail.com
     [2] => **********
     [3] => haryana ) 

But I want the output in this form

  Array[1] (
     [0] => name
     [1] => email
     [2] => contact
     [3] => address 
    ) 
Array[2] (
     [0] => sant
     [1] => sant@gmail.com
     [2] => **********
     [3] => haryana
    ) 

Answer 1

This error comes when you forget to use a semi colon or correct use of " that is inverted commas or any programming mistakes generally syntax related.
Example :

<?php
  $numberOne = 5
  $numberTwo = 7;        
  echo $numberTwo;
?>

This error will be at line three because of missing semi colon. In PHP parser it converts programs into series of PHP tokens. T_VARIABLE token is of type VARIABLE and when parser processes the tokens,it will throws this error if it receives a variable where none is allowed.