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Parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_CASE

Hello,
I am new to Daniweb and am I glad I found it, there is so much helpful information here for a newbie programer.
This is my error message:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_CASE or T_DEFAULT or '}' in C:\wamp\www\helen\upload.php on line 17
This is my story:
I am building a database for a realestate agent and it needs to be able to upload images to the database. Being green at this I have had a heck of a time finding tutorials that make sense to me regarding uploading files to the database so this is what I have done, please tell me if there is a better way. I am using PHP and I have an 'add.php' page where you would fill in your information and there is a browse button to browse to your image file,
here is the code for the button,

<td><input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="100000" size="32" />

       <input name="userfile" type="file" /></td>

I have another page called 'upload.php' that apparently is the page that processes the file information and places it in the database? (I think this is right?)
Here is the code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

<title>uploading</title>

</head>

<body>

<h1>Uploading file</h1>

<?php





if ($_FILES['userfile']['error'] > 0)

{

  echo 'Problem: ';

  switch ($_FILES['userfile']['error'])

  {

   case1: echo 'File exceeded upload_max_filesize'; break;  ->THIS IS LINE 17<-

   case2: echo 'File exceeded max_filesize'; break;

   case3: echo 'File only partially uploaded'; break;

   case4: echo 'No file uploaded'; break;

  }

 exit;

}



if ($_FILES['userfile']['type'] != 'image/gif''image/jpg')

{

        echo 'Problem:image must be .gif or .jpg';

                exit;

}



$upfile= '/uploads/'.$_FILES['userfile']['name'];



if (is_uploaded_file($_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name']))

        if (!move_uploaded_file($_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'], $upfile))

                {

                        echo 'Problem: Could not move file to destination directory';

                        exit;

                }

        }

        else

        {

                echo 'Problem: Possible file upload attack. Filename: ';

                echo $_FILES['userfile']['name'];

                exit;

        }

        

        echo 'File uploaded successfully<br><br>';

        

        $fp = fopen($upfile, 'r');

        $contents = fread ($fp, filesize ($upfile));

        fclose ($fp);

        

        $contents = strip_tags($contents);

        $fp = fopen($upfile, 'w');

        fwrite($fp, $contents);

        fclose($fp);

        

        echo 'Preview of uploaded images:<br><br>';

        echo $contents;

        echo '<br><br>';

        ?>







</body>

</html>

I have been reading posts from others that have been having similar problems and it seems that it is usually a spelling error or a semicolon is missing but I can't seem to find the error.
And I am wondering if this is even the right way about uploading images.

Incase it is important the information in the data base for the image field is:
Field:thumb1
Type:mediumblob
Attributes:binary
Null:no

Thanks for your help, I feel like this php sql stuff will never make sense.

Cheers!