Parse error Syntax error unexpected end of file in my PHP code

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I got an error   Parse error  syntax error  unexpected end of file in the line   With this code    lt html gt       lt  php         function login                            Login function code                   if  login           gt        lt h2 gt Welcome Administrator lt  h2 gt       lt a href   upload php   gt Upload Files lt  a gt       lt br   gt       lt a href   points php   gt Edit Points Tally lt  a gt        lt  php          else                       echo  Incorrect login details  Please login                   gt      Some more HTML code  lt  html gt    What s the problem

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Avoid this as well  lt       gt  make sure you put  lt  php     gt

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Look for any loops or statements are left unclosed   I had ran into this trouble when I left a php foreach  tag unclosed    lt  php foreach  many as  one     gt    Closing it using the following solved the syntax error  unexpected end of file   lt  php endforeach    gt    Hope it helps someone

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also  look for a comment    that breaks the closing curly brace  if  1  1      echo  it is true      the closing curly brace will not properly close the conditional section and php won t properly process the remainder of code

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I saw some errors  which I ve fixed below   This is what I got as being erroneous   if  login       gt   lt h2 gt Welcome Administrator lt  h2 gt   lt a href   upload php   gt Upload Files lt  a gt   lt br   gt   lt a href   points php   gt Edit Points Tally lt  a gt   lt  php  else   echo  Incorrect login details  Please login       This is how I would have done it    lt html gt      some code  lt  php function login         if  empty    POST  username                   return false            if  empty    POST  password                   return false             username   trim    POST  username          password   trim    POST  password          scrambled   md5   password    foo         link   mysqli connect  localhost    root    password        if    link                 error    Unable to connect to the database server           include  error html php           exit               if   mysqli set charset   link   utf8                   error    Unable to set database connection encoding           include  error html php           exit               if   mysqli select db   link   foo                   error    Unable to locate the foo database           include  error html php           exit                sql    SELECT COUNT    FROM admin WHERE username     username  AND password     scrambled         result   mysqli query   link   sql       if    result                return false          exit                row   mysqli fetch array   result       if   row 0   gt  0                return true            else               return false          if  login      echo   lt h2 gt Welcome Administrator lt  h2 gt   lt a href   upload php   gt Upload Files lt  a gt   lt br   gt   lt a href   points php   gt Edit Points Tally lt  a gt      else       echo  Incorrect login details  Please login       gt  some more html code  lt  html gt

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Just go to php ini then find short open tag  Off set to short open tag  On

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I had the same error  but I had it fixed by modifying the php ini and   or editing the PHP file    There are two different methods to get around the parse error syntax   Method 1  Your PHP file   Avoid in your PHP file this    lt       gt    Make sure you put it like this   lt  php   gt       Your code contains  lt     gt       NOTE  The missing php after  lt      Method 2  php ini file   There is also a simple way to solve your problem  Search for the short open tag property value  Use in your text editor with Ctrl   F    and apply the following change     short open tag   Off   to  short open tag   On   According to the description of core php ini directives  short open tag allows you to use the short open tag   lt    although this might cause issues when used with xml   lt  xml will not work when this is enabled        NOTE  Reload your Server  like for example  Apache  and reload your PHP webpage in your browser

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To supplement other answers  it could also be due to the auto-minification of your php script if you are using an ftp client like FileZilla  Ensure that the transfer type is set to Binary and not ASCII or auto  The ASCII or auto transfer type can minify your php code leading to this error

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I had the same error  but I had it fixed by modifying the php ini file   Find your php ini file see Dude  where  39 s my php ini   then open it with your favorite editor   Look for a short open tag property  and apply the following change     short open tag   Off   previous value short open tag   On   new value

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You can t divide IF ELSE instructions into two separate  blocks  If you need HTML code to be printed  use echo    lt html gt       lt  php         function login                            Login function code                   if  login                          echo   lt h2 gt Welcome Administrator lt  h2 gt               lt a href   upload php   gt Upload Files lt  a gt               lt br   gt               lt a href   points php   gt Edit Points Tally lt  a gt                      else                       echo  Incorrect login details  Please login                   gt      Some more HTML code  lt  html gt

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Check that you closed your class   For example  if you have controller class with methods  and by accident you delete the final bracket  which close whole class  you will get this error   class someControler  private  varr  public  varu     public function method                if you forget to close the controller  you will get the error

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Also  another case where it is hard to spot is when you have a file with just a function  I know it is not a common use case but it is annoying and had to spot the error    lt  php function           The file above returns the erro Parse error  syntax error  unexpected end of file in while the below does not    lt  php function

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If your using parse ini file  file  or a routine is rading an  ini file  check if you data is quoted in the ini file  Unquoted data will cause this error  Ex  data1 test will cause the error  data1  test  will not

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Also  watch out for heredoc closing identifiers   Invalid Example   function findAll          query  lt  lt  lt SQL         SELECT   FROM  table 1       SQL             omitted     This will throw an exception that resembles the following    lt br   gt   lt b gt Parse error lt  b gt    syntax error  unexpected end of file in  lt b gt            lt  b gt  on line  lt b gt 5 lt  b gt  lt br   gt    where number 5 might be the last line number of your file   According to php manual      Warning   It is very important to note that the line with the closing identifier must contain no other characters  except a semicolon      That means especially that the identifier may not be indented  and there may not be any spaces or tabs before or after the semicolon  It s also important to realize that the first character before the closing identifier must be a newline as defined by the local operating system  This is  n on UNIX systems  including macOS  The closing delimiter must also be followed by a newline    TLDR  Closing identifiers should NOT be indented   Valid Example   function findAll          query  lt  lt  lt SQL         SELECT   FROM  table 1   SQL         closing identifier should not be indented  although it might look ugly            omitted

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In my case the culprit was the lone opening  lt  php tag in the last line of the file  Apparently it works on some configurations with no problems but causes problems on others

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You should avoid this  at the end of your code       gt    and this    lt  php    You shouldn t put brackets directly close to the open close php tag  but separate it with a space       gt   lt  php     also avoid  lt   and use  lt  php

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For me  the most frequent cause is an omitted   character  so that a function or if statement block is not terminated  I fix this by inserting a   character after my recent edits and moving it around from there  I use an editor that can locate opening brackets corresponding to a closing bracket  so that feature helps  too  it locates the function that was not terminated correctly    We can hope that someday language interpreters and compilers will do some work to generate better error messages  since it is so easy to omit a closing bracket   If this helps anyone  please vote the answer up

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I developed a plugin and installed it on a Wordpress site running on Nginx and it was fine  I only had this error when I switched to Apache  turned out the web server was not accepting the  lt    so I just replaced the  lt   tags to  lt  php then it worked

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