Comments on: PHP Parse Error: syntax error, unexpected $end

By: Alexandre de Oliveira

Alexandre de Oliveira — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:19:27 +0000

3 years later, I found the real problem. Somewhere in the code is written %>, like in a table .

If your asp_tags = On, in ASP it means closing. It’s amongst your HTML code. I got many hours to solve this problem.

By: Neha

Neha — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:59:54 +0000

Thanks Buddy your information helped me from hell of headache(spcly whn the code is not written by youself and u have to make your changes into it..phewww)….but thanks your suggestions helped me to locate and remove errors…..making

By: Gregory Mlay

Gregory Mlay — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:15:50 +0000

Also, some Webserver does not support the tag

By: Zahoor Ahmad

Zahoor Ahmad — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:42:04 +0000

It was very much helpful in solving my problem of the same kind of error.

By: hardy101

hardy101 — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:26:04 +0000

Thank you for this awesome tip about short_open_tags! Would have never found that by myself.

By: COMALite J

COMALite J — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:57:46 +0000

Rana, any source code editor that supports Find / Replace with Regular Expressions can help you balance braces.

Example: in Macrodobe Dreamweaver (any non-absolutely-ancient version), do [Ctrl]+[F] to activate Find/Replace, tell it:

Find in: Current Document
Search: Source Code
Find: [{}]
Replace: (leave blank)
Options: “Use Regular Expression” checked, all others unchecked.

Then simply do Find Next. This will find both opening and closing braces. For each opening brace you find, count them starting at 1. For each closing brace, subtract 1 from the current count. You should wind up at 0 just before it wraps around back to the beginning (also in any specific function, block, etc.).

E.g.
foreach ($array as $value) { // 1 if ($value > 100) { // 2 echo "$value too big!\n"; } // 1 } // 0

By: Raghavendra

Raghavendra — Sat, 10 May 2008 06:10:06 +0000

Thank you very much …..

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:32:09 +0000

Thank you,

Been searching for ages for solution to this.

short_open_tag = On solved that problem for me.

Finally I can open templates

By: sugi

sugi — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 06:27:27 +0000

syntax error, unexpected $end in C:\wamp\www\login.php on line 49

By: Rana

Rana — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:22:27 +0000

Thanks for your time, But for me Its really didfficult to find a missing curly bracket.

Is there any easiest way to findout with MISSING CURLY BRACKET. Any editor can do it for us.

Please Help.
Rana

By: Guy

Guy — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:52:40 +0000

Very useful, thanks. I just upgraded to openSuse 10.3 from 10.2 which had reset my php.ini.

By: Hamed

Hamed — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 04:07:28 +0000

wow! thanks for your useful guidance…

By: gilbert

gilbert — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:20:10 +0000

thhanx a lot short_open_tag = On solved my problem. ypu are helpful

By: Shawn

Shawn — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:39:07 +0000

Thanks a ton, I’ve been trying to figure this out for the last few hours.

By: phpcoder

phpcoder — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:29:38 +0000

This might be due to a missing quote also

By: Bruno

Bruno — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 23:41:11 +0000

Hello. I have a problem with a PHP file that shows the “PHP Parse Error: syntax error, unexpected $end” error and I followed the instructions in this page and corrected the php.ini from OFF to ON.
Now, the file don’t give any feedback when I open it. It only gives me a blank page and no info! O_o
It’s strange… Can you help me please? Thanks.