Why do I get "Parse error: syntax error..."?

by wincex

Posted: 17 years ago 7 replies

PROGRAMMING

Hi, hopefully someone can help me solve the issue I am having with a newsite just uploaded to hostgator (no problems with other sites of mine hosted there).
Thanks to anyone willing to help!
Vince

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in /home/xxxxxxx/public_html/mysite.com/index.php on line 1

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

#doctype #parse error #parse error syntax error #syntax error

Zido 17 years ago

Hi,

this error is due to you having a mistake within your PHP code, it has nothing to do with your doc type as the error is on the PHP code which is serverside and processed before the XHTML is displayed.

I usually find these errors are due to a mistaken quote or lack of a ;

if you wish to send me your php code or post the code here I could help you some more.

Otherwise take a look over your php code and check everything is correct.
- Thanks
{{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1217129].message }}
mpruben 17 years ago

You sure you don't have <?php above that line?

It looks like the standard PHP error
- Thanks
- 1 reply
Signature
Discover how I got 3,672 backlinks with a single article...
{{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1217135].message }}
- wincex 17 years ago
  
  Here's the only php call I use in the page:
  
  <head>
  <title>
  <?php include './somefile.php';
  echo "$customtitle";
  ?></title>
  
  Edit: Tried to change './somefile.php'; in to 'somefile.php'; since it is in the root directory but it doesn't work either...
  
  Thanks
  
  Signature
  
  Murphy's law:"It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious"
  
  {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1217158].message }}
KirkMcD 17 years ago

Is $customtitle defined in somefile.php
and take the quotes off the echo.

echo $customtitle;
- Thanks
- 1 reply
{{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1217261].message }}
- wincex 17 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by KirkMcD
  
  Is defined in somefile.php
  and take the quotes off the echo.
  
  echo ;
  
  Thank you, I'll give it a try.
  
  Thanks
  
  1 reply
  
  Signature
  
  Murphy's law:"It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious"
  
  {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1217444].message }}
  
  wincex 17 years ago
  
  it doesn't work....:confused:
  
  Thanks
  
  1 reply
  
  Signature
  
  Murphy's law:"It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious"
  
  {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1217472].message }}
  
  wincex 17 years ago
  
  Re-uploaded the files in binary mode - it works great!
  The guilty ==>Filezilla: was set to auto...
  
  Thanks
  
  Signature
  
  Murphy's law:"It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious"
  
  {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1217851].message }}