Re: BUG?

I haven't touched the php.ini file ... it is 'as is' after installation. There's nothing obvious in there that looks like it'd be responsible for my current problem. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jason Brooke <jason@qgl.org> To: Michael Hall <mulgaweb@mulga.com.au>; <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 10:13 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] 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 >