I am trying to write a captcha string into my PHP coding on one of my forms to stop bots from spamming me but I get this message when I go to my site now;
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING on line 216.
here is the code on line 216 as it is now,
<input name="bb_codeword" size=40 maxlength=8 value="">
I'm not sure if anyone can help but I'd be much obliged if ya could.
Thanx, Rich.

Are oyu outputting that line with an echo or something?

Then, chances are you should escape those quotes:

<input name=\"bb_codeword\" size=40 maxlength=8 value=\"\">

... and oyu should probably oput the 40 and 8 into quotes as well, just to produce nice HTML.