parse errors where no error

Anon

Fter installing the latest php (4.0.6) with mysql support, I get the following error:

phpinfo.php: parse error, expecting `'('' on line 3
phpinfo();

This is with a simple test file, no other script will work either. I can see PHP is installed and being used, because it returns the error, but why the error?

dannys

Tried recompiling with a 'make clean'?

Anon

Yep, I did that, then re-downloaded after deling all the source and tried again. This is on RedHat 6.2 with the stock apache. The httpd.conf file has been properly tweaked for PHP. This is an interesting little problem that's sure to tick off the boss...

Anon

Check your prepend.php. See if there are any missing parenthesis in that file.

FYI . . . prepend.php is prepended to any php file that is run, thus the name. If there were a parse error in this file, I suspect you'd see the error when you called any file. The puzzling thing is that the error message says the offending file is phpinfo.php.

I assume that your file is only:
<? phpinfo(); ?>