Re: BUG?

This really sounds more like a configuration issue than a bug. I wonder what other stuff you've put into your php.ini file other than the blink tags? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Hall" <mulgaweb%mulga.com.au@octa4.net.au> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 10:37 AM Subject: [PHP] BUG? > I've checked the manual and the archives, but no answers. This is a re-post > with more info ... > > The problem: > I've upgraded to PHP4 and now my PHP3 scripts don't work. It is not an > extensions problem. The problem affects *all* my scripts. The scripts are > happy to output HTML, but as soon as they find round brackets in php code > (even simple stuff such as include(whatever); or even phpinfo(); , they > break and tell me that there is a parse error on whatever is the first line > with a round bracket. For example: > > The script: > <?php > phpinfo(); > ?> > > The error message: > phpinfo.php: parse error, expecting ''('' on line 2 > > The browser source code for above message: > <b><i>phpinfo.php: </i> parse error, expecting ''('' on > line 2</b><br> > <tt>phpinf<b><blink>o();</blink></b><tt><br> > > Note the really weird point (in all scripts) that PHP4 doesn't like the last > letter of whatever the function is, in addition to the round brackets > immediately following: ie, it appears to be saying that the problem in the > above example is the final 'o();' part of ' phpinfo(); '. > > My system: > PHP 4.0.2, Red Hat 6.2 and whatever versions of Apache and Netscape that > shipped with RH6.2 (sorry, they're over on my Linux partition and I'm > currently in Windows). > > Any ideas greatly appreciated, otherwise its back to PHP3 for me ... > > Michael Hall