E_PARSE error ?

I'm using php5, postgresql 8.3, apache2.2.8, FreeBSD 7.0
I don't understand the message:

*Parse error*: syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE,
expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING

the guilty line is:

list($page_id)=sqlget("
select page_id from pages where name='$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']'");

the variable value is "/index.php"

however, at the time of execution this has been cleared

So, the question is - What is the unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE?
and What is actually expected? Are we talking about the content of
$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] or what is the syntax error? This is within php
code; could it be that the parser is reading this as something else,
like HTML?
I'm lost :((