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.

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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.

[Sanders Kaufman]

"Jim Michaels" <jm************@THISPLEASEyahoo.comwrote in message
news:Fd******************************@comcast.com. ..

>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.

It does appear, from that description, that the error is in error.
But, just on a lark, look to see if you have "{$" inside a string somewhere.
Curly bracket followed by a dollar sign tells PHP that it's a complex,
inline variable.
So, if you that, it could produce the error you describe, without raising
the alarm with your bracket-checker.

>
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"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
puter." - John R Searls.

[Jerry Stuckle]

Jim Michaels wrote:

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.

Jim,

Obviously there's a mismatch somewhere :-). Did your brace checker
ignore braces within strings? Or within comments? Either one can throw
it off.

Try a editor with syntax highlighting. On Windows I recommend Crimson;
it has the added advantage of matching up braces for you.
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[Rik Wasmus]

On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 06:44:14 +0100, Jim Michaels
<jm************@THISPLEASEyahoo.comwrote:

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.

An unexpected '}' doesn't mean that curly brace should not be there. For
me, most of the time I get this it means the previous expression wasn't
finished (missing ')' or ';'). If you'd have posted you code leading up to
the offending brace at line 594 maybe we could spot it...
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[Jim Michaels]

Jerry Stuckle wrote:

Jim Michaels wrote:

>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.

Jim,

Obviously there's a mismatch somewhere :-). Did your brace checker
ignore braces within strings? Or within comments? Either one can throw
it off.

Try a editor with syntax highlighting. On Windows I recommend Crimson;
it has the added advantage of matching up braces for you.

it ignores within comments. and as I said, braces match.

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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.

[FFMG]

Jim Michaels;104397 Wrote:

>
it ignores within comments. and as I said, braces match.

Well, sorry, but obviously they don't.
I'd like to think that php has its braces covered by now.

Without seen the code it is very hard to tell where there is a
mismatch.
We don't even know you brace checking code, there could also be a
problem in that.

FFMG.
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[Rik Wasmus]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:26:15 +0100, Jim Michaels
<jm************@THISPLEASEyahoo.comwrote:

Rik Wasmus wrote:
If you'd have posted you code leading up

>to the offending brace at line 594 maybe we could spot it...

I need a 2nd pair of eyes on this problem.

Guess what? We do need the lines to see...

(And thanks for the correct sig seperator BTW :) )
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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.php on line 594".

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

OLLi
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[Rik Wasmus]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:13:45 +0100, Oliver Grätz <ol***********@gmx.de>
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.php on line 594".

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

Ah, an attachment, that's why there was no code in the post. As this group
hasn't got 'binary' or 'binaries' in its name it didn't even occur to
check to me to check for that :).

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

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...

Your remarks about isolating are right. Just take out inner blocks until
the error message fades away. Go back one step and find the error
position...

OLLi

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[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\quiztaker.php on
line 648
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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\quiztaker.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

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[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\quiztaker.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....
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[Rik Wasmus]

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

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\quiztaker.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() =f0fa03b6e3479c5f45ff6f0174ad378d
Yours?
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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() =f0fa03b6e3479c5f45ff6f0174ad378d
Yours?

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

f0fa03b6e3479c5f45ff6f0174ad378d

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_maxlifetime")/60);
?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
// 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

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[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() =f0fa03b6e3479c5f45ff6f0174ad378d
Yours?

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

f0fa03b6e3479c5f45ff6f0174ad378d

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_maxlifetime")/60);
?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
// 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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[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.php 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.

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"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() =f0fa03b6e3479c5f45ff6f0174ad378d
Yours?

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

f0fa03b6e3479c5f45ff6f0174ad378d

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_maxlifetime")/60);
?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
// 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() =f0fa03b6e3479c5f45ff6f0174ad378d
Yours?

php -r "echo md5_file('quiztaker.php')";
f0fa03b6e3479c5f45ff6f0174ad378d

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_maxlifetime")/60);
?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
// 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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[Jim Michaels]

Jim Michaels wrote:

<?php
include 'header.php';
$_SESSION['minutes']=(int)(ini_get("session.gc_maxlifetime")/60);
?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<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($_SESSION['uid']) && !isset($_SESSION['battery_id'])) {
?>
<br /><!--needed because of padding in span -->
<span class="needaccount">You need to register before you can take a
test.</span><br />
<br />
<a href="userlogin.php">Login</a><br />
<a href="ucreateacct.php">Register</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
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Jim Michaels schrieb:

>
anyway, thanks for the help. I wouldn't have gotten this far without a
2nd pair of eyes. thanks again.

I tried a lot but in the end you had to find it yourself. Sorry, but I
couldn't make the database calls for you without a copy of the database.

OLLi

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