#30241 [NEW]: Warning: Unexpected character in input:

From: vgr_php at europeanexperts dot org Operating system: FreeBSD, linux PHP version: 4.3.8 PHP Bug Type: Scripting Engine problem Bug description: Warning: Unexpected character in input: Description: ------------ Problematic server : Apache/1.3.31 (Unix) PHP/4.3.7 platform : FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p27 every once in a while, I got "Warning: Unexpected character in input: '" at various lines and with no relation to the actual script line. It's not a file transfer problem (EOLN missing, etc), it's not a backslash problem, it's not a "globals in string" reference problem, it smells more like broken binaries for FreeBSD, linux and why not other platforms. For reference, I found this old bug : http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/long_list.cgi?buglist=73616 and more important I found http://drupal.org/book/print/257 which is a server that ***also*** runs Apache 1.3.31 and PHP 4.3.8 on linux and has the very same problem... ("Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in /var/www/drupal.org/modules/codefilter/codefilter.module on line 29") When looking in the changelog for PHP 4.3.8, I don't see this possible issue mentioned. Thus I file it. I can't upgrade the problematic server myself with 4.3.8, so I can't tell if the issue is fixed or not. My windows server "Apache/1.3.29 (Win32) PHP/4.3.8" has no problem whatsoever. I don't know what happened between Apache 1.3.29 and 1.3.31 or between PHP 4.3.6 and PHP 4.3.8, but there is a problem in the binaries for some platforms. Regards, VGR www.europeanexperts.org -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=30241&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (php4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30241&r=trysnapshot4 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30241&r=trysnapshot50 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.1): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30241&r=trysnapshot51 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30241&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30241&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30241&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30241&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30241&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30241&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30241&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30241&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30241&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30241&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30241&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30241&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30241&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30241&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30241&r=float MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30241&r=mysqlcfg