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Guestbook parse error on line 14

ibs — GMT

Hi, Im getting the error message

[code]Parse error: parse error, expecting `T_STRING' or `T_VARIABLE' or `T_NUM_STRING' in /home/ibsite/public_html/guestbook/lib/gb.class.php(132) : eval()'d code on line 14[/code]

on my page

http://www.ibsite.com/guestbook/index.php

whenever I try to access the view page of my advanced guestbook. It just appeared. One day it worked, the next day it didnt. (Perhpas related to slow refreshreate of IE). I have tried installing a new guestbook, replacing the working gb.class.php entry from the new book, but to no avail. That leads me to suspect the problem lies elsewhere in the guestbook, but I have no idea where.

I have manually entered about 80 visits from my old guestbook, and wouldnt like to have to customize a new guestbook all over again.

Ive found a couple of entries in this forum on the problem

http://proxy2.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2128
http://proxy2.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2085
http://proxy2.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2059
http://proxy2.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1836
http://proxy2.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1560
http://proxy2.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=747

but none with adequate answers.

I got timeout when I tried to include the code, so ill try to do that in the next post.

Upon searching php forums, Ive found that actual errors to often are a couple of lines under or above the referred line, but as my knowledge of php is limited to searching in forums, they dont tell me much when I dont find an entry with exactly the same problem as I have.

Hope someone here can help me.

Ibs

Guestbook parse error on line 14 - ctd

ibs — GMT

My gb.class.php document reads:

CODE DELETED.

SEE ISSUE WITH entry.php FILE BELOW.

Guestboiok parse error solution

ibs — GMT

This is a description of how to reinstall database of your guestbook from scratch. If you have the parse error, see the below post rather than this.

[quote]Hi,
Didnt find any answers to my question, so in lack of php knowledge I fixed the problem manually.

That is, I first saved the data entries (86) that I had manually inserted by selecting data and export and export as mysql - saved onto my harddisk.

Then I deleted the whole guestbook with all entries from my webserver. Then I reinstalled the guestbook, entered the phpmyadmin provided by my host, deleted the data table and imported (select query window then import) the mysql file that I had saved previously.

It now has all the entries. Now I need to re customize the page to fit the layout of my site in general. A couple of hours work, true, but hopefully the guestbook will be up and running again like before my vicious parse error.

Hope this is a little help to others finding the same problem.

see if it worked at: http://ibsite.com/guestbook/index.php

ibs[/quote]

Found address of parse error

ibs — GMT

[b]Solution to parse error in advanced guestbook?[/b]

Dont want to seem like im bumping this post, but since it is a new development on a field I havent seen any answers I figure that others may appreciate it for orderly purposes.

I reinstalled the guestbook as noted above, but during my customization, I figured I could perhaps upload one and one php file from my backed up faulty directory, and thus find the faulty file.

I backed up my new working guestbook and set to work. After uploading the file entry.php in the templates directory, I again received the parse error as noted above. When I reinstalled the backed up working entry.php file the parse error was gone. Hence it was also true as I noted in my first post that the error was unrelated to line 14 (or any other line?) in the gb.class.php file.

The entry.php file I had customized, and so it fit that it was I that created the error in the first place. Thus, when other users need to search where they were wrong, I suggest taking a backup copy of your existing entry.php file in the templates directory (or simply rename it entryold.php), and replace it with the original text that I include below.

[b]Paste the content below into a blank notepad document[/b] and save [b]as entry.php[/b] in your templates directory. You should not need to delete your guestbook as I did.

Please come back to this post and note if it works for you too.

[b]entry.php: start your marker from

$id)	$URL $ICQ $AIM
$row[name] $GENDER
$row[email]
$LANG[FormLoc]: $row[location]

$DATE $HOST

$EMAIL

$MESSAGE

$COMMENT

[b]end your marking at ...tr> and copy into notepad. [/b]

Save as entry.php in the Templates directory of your guestbook. Check your guestbook to see if it works. The change should apply immediately.

ibs