After upgrading to 7.x-1.7, I got the error Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ':' in /users/challengefc/public_html/challengefc.org/sites/all/modules/nodeblock/nodeblock.module on line 499

The offending code was 

$block_title = $values ?: ($node->nid ? '' : _nodeblock_node_title($node, $langcode));

Making the following change fixed the problem. 

$block_title = $values ? NULL : ($node->nid ? '' : _nodeblock_node_title($node, $langcode));

I'm running PHP 5.3.29-pl0-gentoo

Thanks!

Dan

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dmeigs created an issue. See original summary.

Johnny vd Laar’s picture

Johnny vd Laar commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Php 5.3 isnt supported anymore by the php team. I'm not supporting it either. You should update your webserver.

tille’s picture

tille commented

After updating to nodeblock 7.x-1.7 I had the same error message which basically broke my site. The code change Dan described above will fix the issue. I'm running on PHP 5.6.17.

Thank you!

scb’s picture

scb commented
Status: Closed (won't fix) » Active

Sorry to re-open this, but I have the same problem in some of my sites, and I'm not able to upgrade the server's PHP at the moment.

According to https://www.drupal.org/docs/7/system-requirements/php, Drupal 7 core and modules support php 5.3. Also, it seems this single line of code is the only thing that makes it non working in php 5.3, so could you please consider applying the fix?

Thanks!

Johnny vd Laar’s picture

Johnny vd Laar commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

No PHP 5.3 is not a supported PHP version anymore: http://php.net/supported-versions.php

It's already EOL for 2 years. If we keep maintaining old versions of software then we repeat the whole IE 6/7/8 situation which nobody should ever want.

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gjhinc commented

Same problem with PHP 5.6. Same fix by adding NULL to line 499.