http://omeka.org/forums/ Forums Topic: Parse Error: unexpected '{' when trying to install en Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:21:12 +0000 http://omeka.org/forums/topic/parse-error-unexpected-when-trying-to-install#post-172 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:25:41 +0000 veehikle 172@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>That fixed it....and it installed fine. We're up and running with the pilot...</p> <p>We're now running on PHP 5.x.</p> <p>Now I have to go and see what else broke out there on the site! </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/parse-error-unexpected-when-trying-to-install#post-169 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:38:00 +0000 djweinstein 169@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>I received the following error message after transferring Omeka to a server running PHP 5.2:</p> <p>Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /nfsn/content/teaching/public/omeka/application/libraries/Omeka/Core.php on line 14</p> <p>Thoughts? </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/parse-error-unexpected-when-trying-to-install#post-167 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:37:40 +0000 KrisKelly 167@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Could you do me a huge favor and double check that you have PHP5 enabled? The 'try' keyword only works in PHP5 so it would cause a fatal error if you didn't have the right version of PHP installed on your web host. </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/parse-error-unexpected-when-trying-to-install#post-165 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:30:36 +0000 veehikle 165@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Got the following error when I began to install...</p> <p>All directories were installed on the server<br /> MySQL 5 Server setup<br /> Linux/appache<br /> Using FTP Leech for the uploads<br /> Confirmed the access permissions on the directories.</p> <p>Here's the error...<br /> <a href="http://www.historicalsocietyofsomersethills.org/omeka/install/" rel="nofollow">http://www.historicalsocietyofsomersethills.org/omeka/install/</a></p> <p>Parse error: parse error, unexpected '{' in /home/content/v/e/e/veehikle1/html/omeka/install/install.php on line 16</p> <p>If I go look at the file.....(install.php)</p> <p>try {<br /> $db = $core-&gt;getDb();</p> <p> //Build the database if necessary<br /> $show_tables_sql = "SHOW TABLES";<br /> //Ensure that we don't confuse Omeka if there are already tables in the DB<br /> if($db-&gt;prefix) $show_tables_sql .= " LIKE '$db-&gt;prefix%'";<br /> $res = $db-&gt;query($show_tables_sql);<br /> $tables = $res-&gt;fetchAll();<br /> line 16 is the try comment....</p> <p>Any ideas...?<br /> Not a real computer geek...but I'm willing to learn.... </p>