Help with parse syntax error?

[BoonI]

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in (directory name)/public_html/phpBB3/chat/index.php on line 11

line 11

$user->setup('viewforum');




this should be an easy one but it has stumped me.
any help would be greatly appreciated.

[OldWolf]

What's line 10 look like? Sometimes the error is late.

[OldWolf]

$auth->acl($user-

This line definitely isn't complete. I think you might have meant to combine it and the next one to read:
$auth->acl($user->setup('viewforum'));

But I'm not sure... since I have no idea what those functions do.

[BoonI]

Here's everything down to line 11

<?php

define('IN_PHPBB', true);
$phpbb_root_path = '../phpBB3/chat/index.php'; // See phpbb_root_path documentation
$phpEx = substr(strrchr(__FILE__, '.'), 1); // Set the File extension for page-wide usage.
include($phpbb_root_path = '../phpBB3/chat/index. $phpEx); // include the common.php file, this is important, especially for database connects.

// Start session management
$user->session_begin();
$auth->acl($user->data);
$user->setup('viewforum');

[OldWolf]

It's this line:
include($phpbb_root_path = '../phpBB3/chat/index. $phpEx);

Note that there's an opening apostrophe, but not a closing one.

Your root path isn't really the correct root path either... root path is supposed to direct the user to the root of the phpbb directory. So if you're working in a folder at phpbb3/chat, the correct root path would be '../' I hope that makes sense.

Once you fix that, your include should look more like:
include($phpbb_root_path . 'chat/index' . $phpEx);

Hope that helps!

[BoonI]

Now What?

<?php

define('IN_PHPBB', true);
$phpbb_root_path = '/home2/xxxxxxx/public_html/phpBB3/chat/index.php'; // See phpbb_root_path documentation
$phpEx = substr(strrchr(__FILE__, '.'), 1); // Set the File extension for page-wide usage.
include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.' . $phpEx); // include the common.php file, this is important, especially for database connects.
// Start session management
$user->session_begin();
$auth->acl($user->data);
$user->setup('viewforum');

Warning: include(/home2/xxxxxxxxx/public_html/phpBB3/chat/index.phpcommon.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home2/xxxxxxxx/public_html/phpBB3/chat/index.php on line 6

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening '/home2/xxxxxxxxxxx/public_html/phpBB3/chat/index.phpcommon.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home2/xxxxxxxxx/public_html/phpBB3/chat/index.php on line 6

Fatal error: Call to a member function session_begin() on a non-object in /home2/xxxxxxx/public_html/phpBB3/chat/index.php on line 8

[BoonI]

Started from scratch pretty frustrated but I am stubborn.
Here's what I am thinking.I need to change the phpbb to phpBB3 and that doesn't work so I try putting the entire url home2/xxxx/public_html/phpBB3/chat/index.php still no dice. The only good news is that reloading the demo pages works. I have had some other weird results but they are unrelated.Hopefully my distress will help someone avoid a similar sandtrap in the future. Oh yeah and apparently the syntax error just had nothing to do with it.I was holding out for a quick and painless solution but none exist. getting pretty bleak here so I will let you try once more to explain this to me. By the way which code is it that you claim works?

Warning: include(../phpbb/common.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home2/xxxx/public_html/phpBB3/chat/index.php on line 6

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening '../phpbb/common.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home2/xxxx/public_html/phpBB3/chat/index.php on line 6

Fatal error: Call to a member function session_begin() on a non-object in /home2/xxxx/public_html/phpBB3/chat/index.php on line 9

[OldWolf]

First, the issue your experiencing is a call to the wrong location. Something is wrong with your path.

Here's how we can work this out... I need to know what your structure looks like (so in other words, where are all your files? Are they all inside of phpBB3? Is the index.php file inside of a folder called chat inside of phpBB3? Please be specific). Next, I need to see the exact content of the file your trying and where it is.

Finally, I'm fairly sure you're using the one I said works, and there's nothing wrong with it... it's actually a problem with your paths and the things your changing, not the other user's code. The root path variable needs to lead to phpbb's root path as I explained before. Then your includes should be based on that variable.

[BoonI]

My file structure is as follows home2/me/public_html/phpBB3/chat/index.php

Here is the code I'm going to use. It's the default index page that came with the free chat with the phpBB3 integration code I got from the php homepage pasted at the top.

I hope that's enough to go on.Again,Thank you for your help.

<?php
define('IN_PHPBB', true);
$phpbb_root_path = (defined('PHPBB_ROOT_PATH')) ? PHPBB_ROOT_PATH : './';
$phpEx = substr(strrchr(__FILE__, '.'), 1);
include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.' . $phpEx);

// Start session management
$user->session_begin();
$auth->acl($user->data);
$user->setup();
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>phpFreeChat- Sources Index</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" title="classic" type="text/css" href="style/generic.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" title="classic" type="text/css" href="style/header.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" title="classic" type="text/css" href="style/footer.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" title="classic" type="text/css" href="style/menu.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" title="classic" type="text/css" href="style/content.css" />
</head>
<body>

<div class="header">
<h1>phpFreeChat - Sources Index</h1>
<img alt="logo bulle" src="style/bulle.gif" class="logo2" />
</div>

<div class="menu">
<ul>
<li class="sub title">General</li>
<li>
<ul class="sub">
<li class="item">
<a href="demo/">Demos</a>
</li>
<?php if (file_exists(dirname(__FILE__)."/checkmd5.php")) { ?>
<li>
<a href="checkmd5.php">Check md5</a>
</li>
<?php } ?>
<!--
<li class="item">
<a href="admin/">Administration</a>
</li>
-->
</ul>
</li>
<li class="sub title">Documentation</li>
<li>
<ul>
<li class="item">
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</div>

<div class="content">
<?php $chat->printChat(); ?>
<?php if (isset($params["isadmin"]) && $params["isadmin"]) { ?>
<p style="color:red;font-weight:bold;">Warning: because of "isadmin" parameter, everybody is admin. Please modify this script before using it on production servers !</p>
<?php } ?>
</div>

</body></html>

[OldWolf]

Change this line:
$phpbb_root_path = (defined('PHPBB_ROOT_PATH')) ? PHPBB_ROOT_PATH : './';

to this line:
$phpbb_root_path = '../';

without changing anything else, and tell me what happens.

[BoonI]

That worked! I guess the simplest path was the easiest one.Now as to why the call to member function error.You got me there. I checked for syntax error and couldn't find one.Line 108 is exactly the same as the one above.It looks pretty standard its just a call to start the chat so I have no idea why its not working.Thanks for the help with the root path that seems to be resolved.

Fatal error: Call to a member function printChat() on a non-object in /home2/xxxx/public_html/phpBB3/chat/index.php on line 108

[OldWolf]

"Call to a member function printChat() on a non-object" is telling you that inside that function there is a call to a class that doesn't exist. You must have chopped off the chat header by accident, the part that calls the chat file and creates the object:

Put this just after $user->setup();, but before ?>

Code: Select all

require_once dirname(__FILE__)."/src/phpfreechat.class.php";
$params = array();
$params["title"] = "www.survivorsresource.com";
$params["theme"] = "green";
$params["max_msg"] = 0;
$params["max_nick_len"] = 15;
$params["nick"] = $user->data["username"];
$params["language"] = "ru_RU";
$params["isadmin"] = false;
$params["admins"] = array("admin" => "password");
$params["serverid"] = md5(__FILE__);
$params["debug"] = false;

$chat = new phpFreeChat($params);