Parse error

[rkobi705]

Hi i am very new to php and finally late last night got it running. I am trying to install a web based forum on my web page and every time i run a php file on my web server i get this error.

install.php: parse error, expecting `'('' on line 3
require "config.php";

Here are the first few lines from the install.php file.

<?
require (config.php);
mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpw) or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db($dbname) or die(mysql_error());

$tables = array('announce','banned','forums', 'members', 'posts', 'ranks', 'smilies', 'themes', 'threads', 'u2u
', 'whosonline', 'words');
foreach($tables as $name) {
${'table_'.$name} = $tablepre.$name;
}

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Rob Kobiske

[Anon]

as the error indicates, you need to look at line 3 of config.php not install.php

[rkobi705]

I dont think its in the config file..here is that file though.

?
$dbname = "Blazeboard"; // Database name
$dbuser = "user"; // Database user name
$dbpw = "userpass"; // Database password
$dbhost = "hostname"; // Database host
$tablepre = "forum_"; // Tables prefix
?>

i have all of the users, passwords and hostname filled out. but still the same error.

Rob Kobiske

[Anon]

yeah - you are missing the opening tag.

you have: ?

you need: <?

[rkobi705]

no its there i just copyed it wrong..sorry.

Rob

[Anon]

duh-

I should follow my own advice and read the error messages more carefully! The error is in the first file. You need quotes around the filename, like so:

require (\"config.php\");

(that may contain slashes - if so, eliminate them).