PHP syntax error

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PHP syntax error

Postby prbell » 31. October 2014 11:07

I have the latest version of XAMPP running on a new Macbook (OSX 10.10 Yosemite). As far as I can tell at the moment, Apache and MySQL are working ok, but testing PHP using <?php echo 'Hello world'; ?> brings up

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'world’' (T_STRING), expecting ',' or ';' in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/test.php on line 2

I have looked for an answer on the forum (to which I am new) but so far to no avail, and being new also to OSX and PHP would be grateful for any suggestion as to what may need tweaking to resolve the issue (e.g. something in OSX, or php.ini, or something else).

Many thanks.
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Re: PHP syntax error

Postby Altrea » 31. October 2014 12:22

prbell wrote:’

Thats an ISO-8859-1 expression of an "right single quotation mark" (U+2019) This is not a valid single quote (U+0027).
Check your code and replace the wrong single-quotes with the correct single-quotes
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Re: PHP syntax error

Postby Nobbie » 31. October 2014 13:50

You should also get rid of the problem that your code seems to start at line 2 (instead of line 1), according to the error message. You *should* start in line 1. If you cannot see the reason for this, there may be a problem with the text editor, which eventually inserts a "Byte Order Mark" (BOM) at the beginn of the file (in case of UTF Coding).
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Re: PHP syntax error

Postby prbell » 31. October 2014 15:25

:oops: Thank you both. Message received: "You need a code editor on your Macbook"!
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Re: PHP syntax error

Postby JJ_Tagy » 31. October 2014 19:32

Text Wrangler is good and free.
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