Help With Creating A Thread Please

[MoFish]

hello, im wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction. im trying to create a page with a form. Once the user clicks the submit button on the form I want it to create a new thread in a specified area of my forum. I am running into trouble creating this script using some code I found lieing about the forum.

Is this the correct way to do things? because im getting an error "Parse error: parse error, unexpected $end"

here is the code im trying go get working.

<?php
// ############################## NOTES #################################
/**
* NOTE: user permissions are not checked in this example script and guest 
* posting is allowed by default. Set the full path to your main forum 
* directory, FTP to wherever, and call this script from your browser to 
* test it out. Read the code for further details.
*/

// ########################### CONFIGURATION #############################
// set the full path to your main forum directory
define('FWD','H:\wamp\www\Forum');

// #################### PRE-CACHE TEMPLATES AND DATA #####################
$phrasegroups = array('cpglobal');

// ######################### REQUIRE BACK-END ############################
define('BWD', (($getcwd = getcwd()) ? $getcwd : '.'));
chdir(FWD);
require_once('./global.php');
chdir(BWD);

// #######################################################################
// ######################## START MAIN SCRIPT ############################
// #######################################################################

// use the default function parameters
//create_new_thread();

if (!isset($_POST['submit'])){
?>
<form name="form1" method="post" action="create_new_thread.php">
  <input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit">
</form>
<?
}else{

// alternatively set the function parameters
$title = 'Hello There';
$message = 'Alternative Message';
$id = 4;
$guest = true;
create_new_thread($title, $message, $id, $guest);

}
// ###################### Start create_new_thread ########################
/**
* Creates new thread or gives error and then redirects user
*
* @param	string	Title of thread
* @param	string	Message of post
* @param	integer	ForumID for thread
* @param	boolean	Allow guest posts
*/
function create_new_thread($title = 'Default Title', $message = 'Default Message', $id = 2, $guest = true)
{
	// set some globals

	global $forumperms, $vbulletin, $vbphrase;

	// init some variables

	$fail = 0;
	$errors = array();
	$newpost = array();

	// init post information

	if ($guest AND $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] == 0)
	{
		$newpost['username'] = $vbphrase['guest'];
	}
	$newpost['title'] = $title;
	$newpost['message'] = $message;
	$newpost['signature'] = '0';
	if ($vbulletin->userinfo['signature'] != '')
	{
		$newpost['signature'] = '1';
	}
	$newpost['parseurl'] = '1';
	$newpost['emailupdate'] = '9999';

	// attempt thread create

	$foruminfo = verify_id('forum', $id, 0, 1);
	if (!$foruminfo['forumid'])
	{
		$fail = 1;
	}
	$forumperms = fetch_permissions($foruminfo['forumid']);
	if (!function_exists('build_new_post'))
	{
		require_once(DIR . '/includes/functions_newpost.php');
	}
	build_new_post('thread', $foruminfo, array(), array(), $newpost, $errors);
	if (sizeof($errors) > 0)
	{
		$fail = 1;
	}

	// do redirection

	if (!$fail)
	{
		$vbulletin->url = $vbulletin->options['bburl'] . '/showthread.php?' . $vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl'] . "p=".$newpost['postid']."#post".$newpost['postid'];
		eval(print_standard_redirect('redirect_postthanks'));
	}
	else
	{
		$vbulletin->url = $vbulletin->options['bburl'];
		eval(print_standard_redirect($vbphrase['error'].': '.$vbphrase['redirecting'],0,1));
	}
}
?>