UBB.Developers Forums Community Development Programming PHP and Server-side Scripting parse error.. but, no error?

Hmm, This is the PM I recieved this morning, I can duplicate his problem:

[]Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /my path/forums/showthreaded.php on line 966


I keep getting that when trying to read posts in IE. Netscape can open them but it won't show everything on the screen, the post goes too far to the right and it won't scroll over far enough. =c\ Is it my comp or the site? thanks!

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I checked the line number the error pointed to and its just the ?> at the end of the file. I don't see any $ anywhere

It's hard to say without seeing the script... did you modify the script in any way?

Spaces after the ?> can cause "headers already sent" errors but I have never seen anything mention that parse errors could occur so there must be something further up in the script that's at fault...

The only thing that has been done as far as hacks to that file was the quote hack, which is basically the same thing for both threaded and flat mode, and flat works fine.

Hmm... I can send you a copy of the script if you want to look, but I'll double check where I inserted the few lines for the quote feature and make sure nothing is amiss.

Did you miss a ';' at the end of a line, or a " perhaps? I've gotten similar errors when I forgot one of the characters at the end of a line before the reported error line.

Hmm... This is the only thing I changed before this started happening:

code:
          if ($reply == "on") { 
             $replylinkstart = "<a href="{$config['phpurl']}/newreply.php?Cat=$Cat&Board=$Board&Number=$Number&page=$page&view=$view&what=showthreaded&sb=$sb&o=$o">"; 
             $replylinkstop = "</a>"; 
             $quotelinkstart = "<a href="{$config['phpurl']}/newreply.php?Cat=$Cat&Board=$Board&Number=$Number&page=$page&view=$view&what=showthreaded&sb=$sb&o=$o&quote=y">"; 
             $quotelinkstop = "</a>"; 
          }

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I looked and looked but it looks like that code wouldn't be the cause... lol

I know... me too And it was working fine, but I JUST added that hack lastnight, and when I woke up this morning I had a few PM's about it

I will try uploading a fresh showthreaded.php and see what happens

wow.. I need to stop drinking so much coffee I think. I compared it to a stock showthreaded.php and I was missing one more closing } after the code I edited, I must have somehow deleted it

I'm going back to work, I hate computers!!!