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PHP - Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ':'

Hi,

I have this code working on my localhost WAMP server. However after setting it up on my brand new VPS I get the following error.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ':' in .... on line 69

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Any ideas what this could be? I have never seen a colon in PHP before.

Line 69 is line 8 from the snippet below...

//pagination get
$counterPagination="";
$counterPagination=0;
$address[$counterPagination]=$urlMain;
$paginationAddress="";
$paginationAddress=$urlMain;
	
pagination:
$htmlPagination = new simple_html_dom;
$ch = curl_init();

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I assume it is something to do with my VPS setup / configuration.

Thanks
MHDI

twohawks

Is that being pulled from some sort of "xxx.ini" file somewhere? Perhaps being dynamically written to this file?
this is a php file error, yes?

twohawks

I do not do a vps (yet), however, one thing I got bit by once was code compatibility issues when moving from php executable to php-cgi environment. Things work differently for some aspects in each of those.

Just a thought.

mhdi

ASKER

Yes this is a php error.

I dont have any ini files so I dont think it is dynamic as you suggested.

Ill look into the php-cgi suggestion.

bigeven2002

Hello,

The only times I can recall that a colon is used in PHP is for shorthand conditional statements (ternary operators) and classes (scope resolution operators).

I think line 68 was meant to be a comment. Put a // or a # in front of it and re-run your script to see if it functions normally.

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mhdi

ASKER

Found solution myself.

twohawks

Wow, I didn't know we had that in php. good to know!

twohawks