error message: unexpected $end only when running file on Windows XP

[windmill]

I received the error message "unexpected $end" on a file while running the script under Windows (Apache 2); runs without error on Linux (Apache 1). Any suggestions?

[pbmods]

Heya, windmill. Welcome to TSDN!

Usually, this error occurs because somewhere in your script, there is an opening curly brace '{' that is not paired with a closing curly brace '}'.

[epots9]

can we see your code?

usually this is caused by forgetting a '}'

[windmill]

Heya, windmill. Welcome to TSDN!

Usually, this error occurs because somewhere in your script, there is an opening curly brace '{' that is not paired with a closing curly brace '}'.

I've checked and re-checked the script. All braces are balanced. The odd thing is that the script runs perfectly on a Linux server, but fails on my Windows development machine.

[windmill]

can we see your code?

usually this is caused by forgetting a '}'

I've checked and re-checked the script. All braces are balanced. The odd thing is that the script runs perfectly on a Linux server, but fails on my Windows development machine.

[pbmods]

Heya, Windmill.

Is there a particular script that is causing this error, or does every page do this? If you create a new PHP file on the Windows server, does it generate this error?

[windmill]

Heya, Windmill.

Is there a particular script that is causing this error, or does every page do this? If you create a new PHP file on the Windows server, does it generate this error?

It is one particular script that generates the error. The file is included into another file via the require function. The file was originally created on Linux. Is there a php.ini setting to account for file creation differences between Windows and Linux?

[PHPLJH]

I too, have had a very similar issue, it happened that I had started a script using the long tag "<?PHP" ,closed that segment of PHP and then later on in the script started some more PHP code with "<?". It worked fine on the current server, however I recently moved it to a new one.

Once I had realised that it was the short tag causing the issue ('not easy!!') the problem was simple to fix I just enabled the open_short_tag directive in the php.ini file and voila... I'm not sure this will help but i thought it can't hurt.. hard to say more without knowing more about the issue.

I would be inclined to sugeest that the problem is likely with your server config and more than likely the php.ini...

Hope this helps
Lee

[pbmods]

You can fix short tags by using the following regular expression syntax.

Yes, I said 'fix'. PHP 6 won't support short tags.

Replace '<\?(?!php|xml|=)' with '<?php'
Replace '<\?=' with '<?php echo'

You'll need a text editor that can handle regular expression search and replace.

[ianhobson]

This error can be caused by the interaction of single and double quotes, and by windows line endings confusing heredocs expecting unix endings.

Notepad++ has a feature to change the line endings.

It also colours quoted strings in cream, not white. If your source suddenly starts to has cream background with white to its right, check for a missing, extra or unbalanced " and '.

Hope this helps.

Ian