Parse error unexpected T_STATIC, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR

[.Danny]

Hello,

Sorry to be so rude and just turn up here,

But I am very pressed for time.

 

I tried to install your software on my webserver but I get these errors and I'm not sure why. Would someone here mind helping me out?

 

This one is from the index (/store)

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STATIC, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /home/content/D/html/candycoreclothing/store/classes/Tools.php on line 23

 

And this is from the install (store/install)

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /home/content/D/html/candycoreclothing/store/install/classes/LanguagesManager.php on line 7

 

Thankyou so much for any help given .

Danny.

[.Danny]

Anyone?

[Peter Wilson]

Hi .Danny,

 

First of all, welcome to the PrestaShop Forum

 

That error is due to the fact that PrestaShop cannot run on anything older than PHP5.

 

Please check this thread for more details:

 

http://www.prestashop.com/forum/index.php/topic,966.0.html

[.Danny]

Thankyou for the reply,

But I'm pretty sure I'm running php5 ???

[Peter Wilson]

First, check this list of hosting servers to see if you need to activate PHP5 manually via an .htaccess file:

 

http://www.prestashop.com/forum/index.php/topic,714.0.html

 

If that doesn't work, can you tell us which version of PHP 5 you're using? For example, PHP 5.0.5 or PHP 5.2.4 ?

 

Thanks

[.Danny]

After a closer look I see I have PHP 4.3.11  :-X

 

Sorry about that.

 

Updated to PHP 5 and all is working so far

 

Edit: Did I pin this?  ???

[Peter Wilson]

Hi Danny,

 

No, I did.  This is a very commonly reported error, so I changed the title and pinned it for greater visibility.

[tekstylez]

After a closer look I see I have PHP 4.3.11  :-X

 

Sorry about that.

 

Updated to PHP 5 and all is working so far

 

Edit: Did I pin this?  ???

 

Mind sharing how you updated to php5?

[.Danny]

Sure.

If you have a shared sever then you just have to enable it (like I had to do).

Google is your friend, but I just saw this below this topic: http://www.prestashop.com/forum/index.php/topic,714.0.html

 

But, if you own your own server, you will have to install it (I don't know how to do this, but I'm sure google does  )

 

I hope I helped.

- Danny.

[colderthanice]

This is absolutly php4 problem. Whe we try to install Pretashop on php 4.x than firstly we recognise our domain not forwarding  to install directory. So we are trying www.example.com/install but we saw parse error. There is two solution for this problem.

 

1. Your host must upgrade php 5.x

2. Using php5-cgi file

 

I am using php5-cgi and everything seems ok for now.  Because my host isn't changing or upgrading  php version for me   So a lot of person want to know how to use php5-cgi  ???

 

I have learnt this solution from another e-shop solution's forum.

Step by step application.

1- Download php5-cgi.zip from rapidshare ( http://rapidshare.com/files/113942560/php5-cgi.zip.html )

2- Extract the file

3- From your ftp software (filezilla,cuteftp ... ) login your file server

4- In the www root you can see cgi-bin directory but my best way is you to crate another CGI named directory.

5- Upload extracted file to that directory.

6- Create or change .htaccess file and write these codes.

 

# start code HTACCESS

<IfModule mod_php5.c>

    php_flag magic_quotes_gpc off

    php_flag short_open_tag on

</IfModule>

 

DirectoryIndex index.php

 

Action php5-cgi /cgi/php5-cgi

AddHandler php5-cgi .php

 

# URL rewriting module activation

RewriteEngine on

 

# URL rewriting rules

RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)-([a-zA-Z0-9-]*).html(.*)$ product.php?id_product=$1$3 [L,E]

RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)-([a-zA-Z0-9-]*)(.*)$ category.php?id_category=$1$3 [L,E]

 

# Catch 404 errors

ErrorDocument 404 /404.php

# End Code HTACCESS

 

 

7- Than upload .htacces to your root directory

8- You can explore your domain (www.example.com) will forward www.example.com/install

 

I think everything will ok.

But then you have to read and manage standart prestashop installation steps.

[dr770]

i'm runing php5 on mediatemple gs hosting.

register globals on.

 

getting that error.

 

help?

[Bruno Leveque]

i'm runing php5 on mediatemple gs hosting.

register globals on.

 

getting that error.

 

help?

 

Please could you post the result of phpinfo() ?

[dr770]

thank you for response.

the hostingserver interface didnt swithched to php5 properly at the first time.

now it works fine.

 

thank you!

[Ann]

Hello all,

I' ve tried all solutions given here, but still didn't manage to make it... it seems I didn't manage to switch to php5 although many attemps . My host is online.net and I tried their hotline . Their only answer ( helpfull ! lol ) was that if I didn't get php5 was because I didn' t manage to switch it on ! ( just great, when you don't need anything, just call them ! ).

There is probably something I am doing wrong, but I don't know what...can any one be kind enough to take the time to explain things to a poor little shop attendant who has two main defects :

She is no informatician

She is BLONDE !!!

Thank you ! ;-))

[Ann]

Hello all,

I' ve tried all solutions given here, but still didn't manage to make it... it seems I didn't manage to switch to php5 although many attemps . My host is online.net and I tried their hotline . Their only answer ( helpfull ! lol ) was that if I didn't get php5 was because I didn' t manage to switch it on ! ( just great, when you don't need anything, just call them ! ).

There is probably something I am doing wrong, but I don't know what...can any one be kind enough to take the time to explain things to a poor little shop attendant who has two main defects :

She is no informatician

She is BLONDE !!!

Thank you ! ;-))

Eventually, I managed by MYSELF !!!! ( topic closed )

[Davey]

Just to clarify this issue in a simple way.

In your main prestashop folder, there is a file named htaccess.txt

Add the following in the very first line of the file.

SetEnv DEFAULT_PHP_VERSION 5

Now reupload the htaccess.txt file.

Now the file is on the server, rename that file to .htaccess

Note the . before it, and also remove the extension .txt from the end.

Hope this helps anyone who isnt that familiar with htaccess files.

[dunweb]

Ok,

I am new to Prestashop as I have always used OSC. However, I decided to learn more about PrestaShop because of the nice GUI that would allow my customers to access the admin side and make their own changes easily.

My problem is, I am still getting the Parse error even after making the changes suggested in this thread. If I alter the .htaccess file it comes up with an error 500 (internal server error) when I try to install Prestashop.

Is anyone else using godaddy.com to host a prestashop ? if so, was there anything special needed ???


Thanks in advance.


Chris

[dunweb]

Disregard, I found some answers in another sticky.

Thanks


Chris

[imissu]

I got the same problem,

it's now work by switching to php5 from php configuration in my cpanel....



thanks

[bobmane]

the posted solutions did not work for me


I am at 1&1;and it is PHP 5


i uploaded htaccess:

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php4
AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php4


and also tried this:

SetEnv DEFAULT_PHP_VERSION 5
# URL rewriting module activation
RewriteEngine on

# URL rewriting rules
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)\-([a-zA-Z0-9-]*)\.html(.*)$ product.php?id_product=$1$3 [L,E]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)\-([a-zA-Z0-9-]*)(.*)$ category.php?id_category=$1 [QSA,L,E]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)__([a-zA-Z0-9-]*)(.*)$ supplier.php?id_supplier=$1$3 [QSA,L,E]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)_([a-zA-Z0-9-]*)(.*)$ manufacturer.php?id_manufacturer=$1$3 [QSA,L,E]

# Catch 404 errors
ErrorDocument 404 /404.php



same error

/install/classes/LanguagesManager.php on line 7





i have a Magento store working on the same server so Im not sure its as easy as blaming 1and1.

[1959]

I am hosted with 1&1;. I have a shared package.

Here is info for changing to php5.

http://faq.1and1.com/scripting_languages_supported/php/upgrade/6.html

It says

By default Apache uses PHP 4 for .php extension. If you don't want to rename all your
scripts to .php5 you can do the following:
Create a .htaccess file and place the following line AddType x-mapp-php5 .php in it.

This will tell Apache to use PHP 5 instead of PHP 4 for the extension .php in the
directory the .htaccess is placed and all sub-directories under it.

[tcharara]

Hello,

After installing Prestashop successfully on my personal website (@ Amen.fr) I'm trying to do this for a client who is at Thunderhosting.org.

PHP is 5.2.9 as per the general server information. I could not get past the "parse error unexpected T_STATIC… error, until I changed the .htaccess file to:


AddType x-mapp-php5 .php

# URL rewriting module activation
RewriteEngine on



# URL rewriting rules
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9-]*)/([0-9]+)\-([a-zA-Z0-9-]*)\.html(.*)$ product.php?id_product=$2$4 [L,E]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)\-([a-zA-Z0-9-]*)\.html(.*)$ product.php?id_product=$1$3 [L,E]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)\-([a-zA-Z0-9-]*)(.*)$ category.php?id_category=$1 [QSA,L,E]
RewriteRule ^content/([0-9]+)\-([a-zA-Z0-9-]*)(.*)$ cms.php?id_cms=$1 [QSA,L,E]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)__([a-zA-Z0-9-]*)(.*)$ supplier.php?id_supplier=$1$3 [QSA,L,E]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)_([a-zA-Z0-9-]*)(.*)$ manufacturer.php?id_manufacturer=$1$3 [QSA,L,E]

# Catch 404 errors
ErrorDocument 404 /404.php

That got rid of the error, now I get an installation window with lot's of code (see jpeg) and have no clue as to what is to be done now! I would be thankful for your suggestions!

Thanks,

Tarek

[tcharara]

:-) I found the answer to my problem.

It seems that although Thunderhost.org indicates php 5 as active, the default is php 4.

My cpanel configuration (or version) did not allow the end user to change the php configuration - this has been changed ovrnight. Everything works as expected.

[rizham]

hat error is due to the fact that PrestaShop cannot run on anything older than PHP5

[ondrovic]

I get this error when trying to install a module, it could be that I am trying to write the module and doing something wrong

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/chrellis/public_html/classes/Module.php(325) : eval()'d code on line 49
Parse error(s) in module(s)

1. socialbookmarks

I did check to make sure that php 5 is installed a correctly working and it is

Any ideas or am I in the wrong thread for this problem?

Thanks

[sp2000]

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in C:\AppServ\www\pshop\install\classes\ToolsInstall.php on line 4

I got an above error when I install the program.

I have checked my php version is MySQL client version: 3.23.49
Server version: 5.0.45-community-nt-log

Can any tell me what the problem is?

Thanks a lot
Steve

[yangxiong40]

I agree with the above statement. Good point!
Everyone’s views are different, so opinions are not the same.
Bing or Google may help you. Have a try!

[pozz]

Hi

I get this error aswell and have tried everything I have found but whitout success.
Cleared cookies.
Have php5
I cant see the .htaccess or the cgi bin on the server, that might be a problem?

Anyone else have any ideas?

regards

[gmanpresto]

Hello,

Sorry to be so rude and just turn up here,

But I am very pressed for time.

 

I tried to install your software on my webserver but I get these errors and I'm not sure why. Would someone here mind helping me out?

 

This one is from the index (/store)

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STATIC, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /home/content/D/html/candycoreclothing/store/classes/Tools.php on line 23

 

And this is from the install (store/install)

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /home/content/D/html/candycoreclothing/store/install/classes/LanguagesManager.php on line 7

 

Thankyou so much for any help given .

Danny.

[benjamin utterback]

Hello, this error does not seem to be consistent with the recent versions of PrestaShop, I will unPin this topic.

[lalit]

PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING, expecting T_FUNCTION in /hermes/bosnaweb03a/b2758/ipg.delhibrandscom1/override/classes/Dispatcher.php on line 26

 

 

I'm getting this error after install and uninstall one module. 'cleanurl'

 

 

Any suggetion? 

[ebclr]

This is a well known bug/situation in PrestaShop.PrestaShop tries to manually copy class methods to \override\classes\* files, and sometimes the lines miss-match or the line break are wrong, and the end result is incorrectly copied lines which cause syntax errors. That happens both on installation and uninstallation.

you need to rename the file Dispatcher.php to Dispatcher.php_ORIG and your application will work as intended. 

Please clear your browser's cache and verify on your end.