unexpected }

[Jim Michaels]

I have a 638 line glob of PHP code & HTML that won't run.
I get "PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '}' in quiz\\quiz.php
on line 594".
I wrote a brace checker that checks perens, square brackets, and curly
braces for mismatches & opens and it checks out perfect. so I don't
know what it is about the curly brace error. it's false.
anybody have a clue as to what the real error might be? the code looks
pristine to me.

------------------------------------
Jim Michaels
for email, edit the address

"Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly
tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand
it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a
telephone switchboard. ('What else could it be?') I was amused to see
that Sherrington, the great British neuroscientist, thought that the
brain worked like a telegraph system. Freud often compared the brain to
hydraulic and electro-magnetic systems. Leibniz compared it to a mill,
and I am told some of the ancient Greeks thought the brain functions
like a catapult. At present, obviously, the metaphor is the digital
computer." - John R Searls.

[Rik Wasmus]

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:15:13 +0100, Oliver Grätz <ol***********@ gmx.de>
wrote:

Rik Wasmus schrieb:

>Allthough it's a big nono to post attachments, a quick look learns me I
will unfortunatly not check this code. This is truly a maintenance
nightmare. Templates and/or isolating some deeply nested
if/else/while/switch statements seems to be badly needed.

A "php -l" did not yield a parsing error AND the file is 692 lines long
(not 638) AND it is not matching the filename from the error message, so
I doubt the file in question was attached...

Hmmm, don't know where something went different, a php -l here gave me a:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '}' in G:\Personal\qui ztaker.php on
line 648
--
Rik Wasmus

[=?ISO-8859-15?Q?Oliver_Gr=E4tz?=]

Rik Wasmus schrieb:

>A "php -l" did not yield a parsing error AND the file is 692 lines long
(not 638) AND it is not matching the filename from the error message, so
I doubt the file in question was attached...

Hmmm, don't know where something went different, a php -l here gave me a:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '}' in G:\Personal\qui ztaker.php on
line 648

# php4 -v
PHP 4.4.7-0.dotdeb.0 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6 (cli) (built: May 9 2007
16:38:02)
Copyright (c) 1997-2007 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v1.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Zend Technologies

# php4 -l quiztaker.php
No syntax errors detected in quiztaker.php

# php -v
PHP 5.2.5-0.dotdeb.0 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6.2 (cli) (built: Nov 12
2007 19:09:20)
Copyright (c) 1997-2007 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2007 Zend Technologies

# php -l quiztaker.php
No syntax errors detected in quiztaker.php

php -v

PHP 5.2.1 (cli) (built: Feb 7 2007 23:11:26)
Copyright (c) 1997-2007 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2007 Zend Technologies
with Xdebug v2.0.0, Copyright (c) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006,
2007, by Derick Rethans

>php -l quiztaker.php

No syntax errors detected in quiztaker.php
No problems here, not with PHP4 nor PHP5, and not on win32.
I even changed the file from CR+LF to just LF, no change.
Have to mark this as WORKSFORME ;-)

OLLi

--
Programming is an art form that fights back.

[Rik Wasmus]

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:09:23 +0100, Oliver Grätz <ol***********@ gmx.de>
wrote:

Rik Wasmus schrieb:

>>A "php -l" did not yield a parsing error AND the file is 692 lines long
(not 638) AND it is not matching the filename from the error message,
so
I doubt the file in question was attached...

Hmmm, don't know where something went different, a php -l here gave me
a:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '}' in G:\Personal\qui ztaker.php
on
line 648

PHP 4.4.7-0.dotdeb.0 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6 (cli) (built: May 9 2007
16:38:02)
No syntax errors detected in quiztaker.php

PHP 5.2.5-0.dotdeb.0 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6.2 (cli) (built: Nov 12
2007 19:09:20)
No syntax errors detected in quiztaker.php

PHP 5.2.1 (cli) (built: Feb 7 2007 23:11:26)
No syntax errors detected in quiztaker.php
No problems here, not with PHP4 nor PHP5, and not on win32.
I even changed the file from CR+LF to just LF, no change.
Have to mark this as WORKSFORME ;-)

Win64,
PHP 5.2.4 (cli) (built: Aug 30 2007 07:06:31),
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '}' in quiztaker.php on line 648

Weird....
--
Rik Wasmus

[Rik Wasmus]

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:35:29 +0100, Rik Wasmus
<lu************ @hotmail.comwro te:

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:09:23 +0100, Oliver Grätz <ol***********@ gmx.de>
wrote:

>Rik Wasmus schrieb:

>>>A "php -l" did not yield a parsing error AND the file is 692 lines
long
(not 638) AND it is not matching the filename from the error message,
so
I doubt the file in question was attached...

Hmmm, don't know where something went different, a php -l here gave me
a:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '}' in G:\Personal\qui ztaker.php
on
line 648

>PHP 4.4.7-0.dotdeb.0 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6 (cli) (built: May 9 2007
PHP 5.2.5-0.dotdeb.0 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6.2 (cli) (built: Nov 12
PHP 5.2.1 (cli) (built: Feb 7 2007 23:11:26)
No syntax errors detected in quiztaker.php

No problems here, not with PHP4 nor PHP5, and not on win32.
I even changed the file from CR+LF to just LF, no change.
Have to mark this as WORKSFORME ;-)

Win64,
PHP 5.2.4 (cli) (built: Aug 30 2007 07:06:31),
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '}' in quiztaker.php on line 648

Weird....

md5_file() =f0fa03b6e3479c 5f45ff6f0174ad3 78d
Yours?
--
Rik Wasmus

[=?ISO-8859-15?Q?Oliver_Gr=E4tz?=]

Rik Wasmus schrieb:

>Win64,
PHP 5.2.4 (cli) (built: Aug 30 2007 07:06:31),
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '}' in quiztaker.php on line 648

Weird....

md5_file() =f0fa03b6e3479c 5f45ff6f0174ad3 78d
Yours?

>php -r "echo md5_file('quizt aker.php')";

f0fa03b6e3479c5 f45ff6f0174ad37 8d

Nope, we're shoveling the same coals into the engine...

And I can even get some HTML output from the script after changing the
top of the file to

<?php
function getconfigvar() {return '';}
$_SESSION['minutes']=(int)(ini_get( "session.gc_max lifetime")/60);
?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dt d">
// now the rest follows...

so this is no fake OK message. It reallys seems to have something to do
with some very subtle differences in the PHP version or configuration.
Hard to catch, giving up...

OLLi

--
public class ValidationMessa ge
{
//internal members
string messageId;
string messageText;
string helpLink;
/* ... */
double cheeseburger;
char broiled;
long time;

//helper functions
/* ... */
}

[Jerry Stuckle]

Oliver Grätz wrote:

Rik Wasmus schrieb:

>>Win64,
PHP 5.2.4 (cli) (built: Aug 30 2007 07:06:31),
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '}' in quiztaker.php on line 648

Weird....

md5_file() =f0fa03b6e3479c 5f45ff6f0174ad3 78d
Yours?

>php -r "echo md5_file('quizt aker.php')";

f0fa03b6e3479c5 f45ff6f0174ad37 8d

Nope, we're shoveling the same coals into the engine...

And I can even get some HTML output from the script after changing the
top of the file to

<?php
function getconfigvar() {return '';}
$_SESSION['minutes']=(int)(ini_get( "session.gc_max lifetime")/60);
?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dt d">
// now the rest follows...

so this is no fake OK message. It reallys seems to have something to do
with some very subtle differences in the PHP version or configuration.
Hard to catch, giving up...

OLLi

Remember, when you include the file, it's effectively the same as
copying/pasting the source into the file. IOW, a syntax error (i.e. an
unmatched '"'( can be carried over into the included file.

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JDS Computer Training Corp.
js*******@attgl obal.net
=============== ===

[Jim Michaels]

Oliver Grätz wrote:

Jim Michaels schrieb:

>>>I have a 638 line glob of PHP code & HTML that won't run.
I get "PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '}' in
quiz\\quiz.p hp on line 594".

Your attachment won't help, the error is not in quiztaker.php but in
quiz.php,

OLLi

I renamed it. I also added more commented-out code.

--

------------------------------------
Jim Michaels
for email, edit the address

"Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly
tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand
it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a
telephone switchboard. ('What else could it be?') I was amused to see
that Sherrington, the great British neuroscientist, thought that the
brain worked like a telegraph system. Freud often compared the brain to
hydraulic and electro-magnetic systems. Leibniz compared it to a mill,
and I am told some of the ancient Greeks thought the brain functions
like a catapult. At present, obviously, the metaphor is the digital
computer." - John R Searls.

[Jim Michaels]

Jerry Stuckle wrote:

Oliver Grätz wrote:

>Rik Wasmus schrieb:

>>>Win64,
PHP 5.2.4 (cli) (built: Aug 30 2007 07:06:31),
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '}' in quiztaker.php on line 648

Weird....
md5_file() =f0fa03b6e3479c 5f45ff6f0174ad3 78d
Yours?

>>php -r "echo md5_file('quizt aker.php')";

f0fa03b6e3479c 5f45ff6f0174ad3 78d

Nope, we're shoveling the same coals into the engine...

And I can even get some HTML output from the script after changing the
top of the file to

<?php
function getconfigvar() {return '';}
$_SESSION['minutes']=(int)(ini_get( "session.gc_max lifetime")/60);
?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dt d">
// now the rest follows...

so this is no fake OK message. It reallys seems to have something to do
with some very subtle differences in the PHP version or configuration.
Hard to catch, giving up...

OLLi

Remember, when you include the file, it's effectively the same as
copying/pasting the source into the file. IOW, a syntax error (i.e. an
unmatched '"'( can be carried over into the included file.

when I edited in dreamweaver 8 I don't think I saw any strings out of place.
I am using 3 different versions of PHP. PHP4 & PHP5 from XAMPP, PHP
5.2.3 CLI win32. ALL fail. all have warnings and errors set to full
blast. with XAMPP, all errors are fed into apache/error.log.

I get some HTML, but it's essentially <body></bodywith nothing in
between. the basic HTML page. I also get an error message about the
curly brace in the error log.
with the win32 version I get the error message straignt out on the
command-line.
I'll try removing sections under a different filename and see what happens.
------------------------------------
Jim Michaels

[Jerry Stuckle]

Jim Michaels wrote:

Jerry Stuckle wrote:

>Oliver Grätz wrote:

>>Rik Wasmus schrieb:
Win64,
PHP 5.2.4 (cli) (built: Aug 30 2007 07:06:31),
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '}' in quiztaker.php on line 648
>
Weird....
md5_file() =f0fa03b6e3479c 5f45ff6f0174ad3 78d
Yours?

php -r "echo md5_file('quizt aker.php')";
f0fa03b6e3479 c5f45ff6f0174ad 378d

Nope, we're shoveling the same coals into the engine...

And I can even get some HTML output from the script after changing the
top of the file to

<?php
function getconfigvar() {return '';}
$_SESSION['minutes']=(int)(ini_get( "session.gc_max lifetime")/60);
?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dt d">
// now the rest follows...

so this is no fake OK message. It reallys seems to have something to do
with some very subtle differences in the PHP version or configuration.
Hard to catch, giving up...

OLLi

Remember, when you include the file, it's effectively the same as
copying/pasting the source into the file. IOW, a syntax error (i.e.
an unmatched '"'( can be carried over into the included file.

when I edited in dreamweaver 8 I don't think I saw any strings out of
place.
I am using 3 different versions of PHP. PHP4 & PHP5 from XAMPP, PHP
5.2.3 CLI win32. ALL fail. all have warnings and errors set to full
blast. with XAMPP, all errors are fed into apache/error.log.

I get some HTML, but it's essentially <body></bodywith nothing in
between. the basic HTML page. I also get an error message about the
curly brace in the error log.
with the win32 version I get the error message straignt out on the
command-line.
I'll try removing sections under a different filename and see what happens.
------------------------------------
Jim Michaels

Which says you have a basic syntax error.

Don't trust Dreamweaver (or any other editor) to do your work for you.
They all can make mistakes. And ultimately, YOU are responsible for the
code.

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=============== ===
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JDS Computer Training Corp.
js*******@attgl obal.net
=============== ===

[Jim Michaels]

Jim Michaels wrote:

<?php
include 'header.php';
$_SESSION['minutes']=(int)(ini_get( "session.gc_max lifetime")/60);
?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dt d">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
...blah...</head>

<body>
<div class="heading" >Quiz</div>
<?php
//must have just typed in the URL.
if (!isset($_SESSI ON['uid']) && !isset($_SESSIO N['battery_id'])) {
?>
<br /><!--needed because of padding in span -->
<span class="needacco unt">You need to register before you can take a
test.</span><br />
<br />
<a href="userlogin .php">Login</a><br />
<a href="ucreateac ct.php">Registe r</a><br />
<?

and there's the culprit. <? instead of <?php
I knew it was not a bracket or quote problem. dreamweaver covers quotes
by making mistakes very visible. the tool I wrote covers brackets. but
dw is supposed to handle generic PHP code, therefore it displays <? the
same as <?PHP. I think this should be an option, because it could make
the difference between your code running or not running - not every
server has short_tags enabled.

and after running the code with the session variables in place, I find
it is still quite buggy due to discovering something very important
missing... time for a rewrite/rethink. ugh. what was I thinking?

anyway, thanks for the help. I wouldn't have gotten this far without a
2nd pair of eyes. thanks again.
------------------------------------
Jim Michaels
for email, edit the address