By maxbayes on

Hi

I just installed drupal and on running it for the first time get the following error:
"Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /var/www/html/drupal/modules/user.module on line 1981"

I read that the problem might be with a blank line, but its not the case.
[root@max modules]# tail -1 user.module
?>
[root@max modules]# wc -l user.module
1980 user.module

I'm not too familiar with php so can someone give me any hints as to whats happening.

Thanks.
Max

Comments

kika’s picture

kika commented

...are you using?

maxbayes’s picture

maxbayes commented

I'm using drupal-4.0.0

Anonymous’s picture

(not verified) commented

in my case was php short tags. When I installed locally for testing I got the same error. I have short tags off on my server.

I had to do a find/replace all instances of &lt? short tags with <?php long tags. The errors in a default v4 install are to be found in:

modules/user.module
Lines 1722, 1760, 1932, 1978

themes/goofy/goofy.theme
Line 179

Alternatively, add

php_value short_open_tag on

to your .htaccess file and you're set.

dries’s picture

dries commented

I fixed this in CVS and backported it to both 4.1.0-rc and 4.0.0. There were additional short tags in 3 other files you might have forgotten. Thanks.