Re: unexpected include parse error

David Obrien wrote:

the \ has to be slashed ".\\";

Ah great, thanks! that fixes most of the errors. The following runs where I define the $dirstr in the function but if I try to define it in the page that calls the function, it still gives Parse error, unexpected T_INCLUDE in [#call] #call $dirstr= ".//" this is where I want to define the directory include 'scandir.php'; scandir('$dirstr'); #function function scandir($dirstr) {

     $files = array();
     #$dirstr=".//";
     $fh = opendir($dirstr);
     while (false !== ($filename = readdir($fh))) {
         array_push($files, $filename);
     }
     closedir($fh);
     return $files;

} PS I'm on my windows apache server but the forward slash seems to work in php & that keeps it portable. I tried it both ways.