Category sorting via The Loop [closed]

Question

I have this code trying to sort by a specific category. I keeps saying it has an unexpected $end on line 39. What did I do wrong in the code. I've been playing with it and reading the codex for a while and can't figure it out.

<?php get_header(); ?>
<div id="container">
    <div id="content">

    <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

  <?php $post = $posts[0]; // Hack. Set $post so that the_date() works. ?>
  <?php /* If this is a category archive */ if (is_category('5')) { ?>
      <h1 class="pagetitle"><?php _e('Archive for the', 'default'); ?> &#8216;<?    php single_cat_title(); ?>&#8217; <?php _e('category', 'default'); ?></h1>
      <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
    <div <?php post_class(archives-page) ?>>
        <h2 id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"   rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
        <small class="meta"><?php the_time(__('F jS, Y','default')); ?> <?php edit_post_link(__( 'Edit', 'default' ), ' | ', ''); ?></small>

        <div class="entry">
            <?php the_content((__( '&raquo; Read more: ', 'default')) . the_title('', '', false)); ?>
        </div>

        <div class="postmetadata clearfix">
    <p class="commentslink alignright">
      <?php comments_popup_link( __( 'No comments', 'default' ), __( '1 comment', 'default' ), __( '% comments', 'default' )); ?> &#187;
    </p>
          <p class="categories">
      <?php _e('Posted in ', 'default' ); the_category(', '); ?>
    </p>
          <?php the_tags( '<p class="tags">Tags: ', ' ', '</p>'); ?>
  </div>
    </div>

    <?php endwhile; ?>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Answer 1

I've found one endif; missing & one unclosed bracket.

Fixed version:

<?php get_header(); ?>
<div id="container">
    <div id="content">

    <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

  <?php $post = $posts[0]; // Hack. Set $post so that the_date() works. ?>
  <?php /* If this is a category archive */ if (is_category('5')) ?>
      <h1 class="pagetitle"><?php _e('Archive for the', 'default'); ?> &#8216;<?php single_cat_title(); ?>&#8217; <?php _e('category', 'default'); ?></h1>
      <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
    <div <?php post_class(archives-page) ?>>
        <h2 id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"   rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
        <small class="meta"><?php the_time(__('F jS, Y','default')); ?> <?php edit_post_link(__( 'Edit', 'default' ), ' | ', ''); ?></small>

        <div class="entry">
            <?php the_content((__( '&raquo; Read more: ', 'default')) . the_title('', '', false)); ?>
        </div>

        <div class="postmetadata clearfix">
    <p class="commentslink alignright">
      <?php comments_popup_link( __( 'No comments', 'default' ), __( '1 comment', 'default' ), __( '% comments', 'default' )); ?> &#187;
    </p>
          <p class="categories">
      <?php _e('Posted in ', 'default' ); the_category(', '); ?>
    </p>
          <?php the_tags( '<p class="tags">Tags: ', ' ', '</p>'); ?>
  </div>
    </div>

    <?php endwhile; endif;  ?>
    <?php endwhile; endif; ?> 

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Does it work now?