Upload backup files and still same error message!!

[ronan]

This has happened me a few times now and is driving me mad. I'll use this latest example. I has setting up a new store and was changing the included/languages/english/index.php file. I was just changing the home page text. When i uploaded it i got this error

 

Parse error: parse error, unexpected ';' in D:\webworld\ijumbleonline\ijumbleonline.com\www\oscommerce\includes\languages\english\index.php on line 13 ,

 

so i went to my backup folder and replaced the index.php file that i had edited with the initial backup file index.php. I uploaded it to the server but i am still getting the exact same error message. How in gods name is this possible???

 

This is not tthe first time this has happened and i always end up having to reload the whole site to the server and then it works fine. :(

[Guest]

What are you using to upload? Maybe your FTP client is bad.

[ronan]

Hey,

 

Im using dreamweaver mx. Thats not the problem, i use it all the time for other websites and it works fine.

[Guest]

Look for that semicolon on line 13. Did you put it there? I know a single quote will mess up php badly and cause errors. I'm not sure on semicolons.

[ronan]

I had put in the word i'll and the ' symbol was messing up the code. Got it sorted now. Thanks for the help m8 :D

[Guest]

Yeah, that's a bustup for sure. Glad you found it! You can escape it with a backslash. Just drop a backslash before each single quote in your text and it will read it as text instead of code.