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Parse Error - After Install

Anon

I have just installed PHP Version 4.0.4pl1
and am testing everything. I am a newbie, but have tried the follow two scripts, inside of a basic html page.

I don't get a parse error on this:

<?php phpinfo() ?>

But do get one on this:

	<?php if(strstr($HTTP_USER_AGENT,"MSIE")) {; ?><b>You are using Internet Explorer</b> <? } else {; ?><b>You are not using Internet Explorer</b> <? }; ?>

The error I get is:

Parse error: parse error in /Library/WebServer/Documents/test2.php on line 1

Does anyone have any suggestions?

lucidfx

<?php if(strstr($HTTP_USER_AGENT,"MSIE")) {; ?>You are using Internet Explorer <? } else {; ?>You are not using Internet Explorer <? }; ?>
You have some semis where they shouldn't be:
<?
if(strstr($HTTP_USER_AGENT,"MSIE"))
{
print "You are using IE";

}
else
{
print"too bad";
}
OR MORE LIKE YOU HAVE IT
if(strstr($HTTP_USER_AGENT,"MSIE"))
{
?>
IE
<?
}
else
{
?>
NETSCAPE
<?
}
?>

Something along those lines.

Anon

I get the same parse message on your code.

I copied the previous code straight off a web tutorial site.

I think it is something in my setup. I didn't do any configuration at all.

I just installed it, and ran.

But, I don't know what it could be.

Simple scripts work, but not complex ones.

Anon

Thats really weird, what web server and OS are you on?
If its running php at all it should have access to all of the components for the basic things there.

put one of the ones i posted back in a page and let me know what line its parsing on, if its parsing on strstr then we might not be using that function exactly right.

Anon

Well, it still doe it. With either of the code you provided I get this message:

Warning: Failed opening '/Library/WebServer/Documents/test6.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in Unknown on line 0

Here is the compete html code.

<head>
	<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1">
	<meta name="generator" content="Adobe GoLive 5">
	<title>PHP Tests</title>
</head>

<body bgcolor="#ffffff">

</body>

Anon

Oh, I am running Mac OS X 10.01 , Apache 1.3, mySQL 2.23.36, and PHP 4.04pl1

lucidfx

Yikes, im not sure? sorry, that error doesn't make a ton of sense 🙁
I dont understand how it will run simple code but not anything complex.. so strange.
Maybe someone with some Mac experience may help? You may want to repost a thread with the information you have now.

That error along with some code that does not work and some code that does.

Anon

I think I know what your problem is listen to this

There are three ways of starting a php document

<? php stuff here ?>
<% php stuff here %>
<? php stuff here ?>

You have <?php ?> automatically configured but the other 2 must be manually changed open your php.ini file and edit it with notepad or word pad or whatever you use
asp_tags=On
short_open_tag=On

Also make sure there is no whitespace or semi colons before the beggining of each and if this for some odd reason does'nt work put semicolons after the n in on

And one thing do you know how to get php email configured cause mine refuses to work...thanks
Sincerely Mark,

Anon

i have just started using PHP on OS X and after i got it started i tried using some php scripts from a web site. i copied the code after viewing the source from Internet explorer.

when i tried to view the pages off of my server i got a parse error. after much fiddling around i used Bbedit to show hidden, invisible and space characters.

i re-typed some of the lines of code and found that the characters representing spaces for code that i cut and pasted was different than the code that i had typed manually.

i did a find and replace of all the spaces and tabs and i no longer have parse errors.

i am not sure who the culprit is, IE, Mac or ? but i think that is probably the same problem you are having.

pink