PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected end of file in Command line code on line 1

pizzipie · 05-13-2014, 11:23 AM

This seems ridiculous.

I was in the middle of working out some bugs in another PHP program when I started getting the subject error. I started commenting out portions of the program until I had commentd out everything. Nothing fixed it so I created the code below with the same results.

I am at a standstill. Please help.

Code:

<?php

print "hello rick";

?>

szboardstretcher · 05-13-2014, 11:29 AM

Do you mean you created a new file, or are you using the old one?

I would be wary of editing in windows and saving on linux via ftp/scp or whatever. What editor are you using? Have you looked at the contents of the file with vim and turned on view all characters?

In other words, it sounds like an invisible character mucking it up.

pizzipie · 05-13-2014, 11:44 AM

I use Ubuntu 13.04. With Firefox and Bluefish, although I created the sample program with gedit. I don't know a thing about Vim though. No Windows on machine.

Just to be sure about hidden characters I made a new same program. Same results!!

grail · 05-13-2014, 12:15 PM

Well if no Windows in the way, may we ask how you are running / viewing / parsing this and where you are getting the error?

NevemTeve · 05-13-2014, 12:26 PM

> syntax error, unexpected end of file in Command line code on line 1

Please quote the exact command you used.

Rechosen · 12-11-2014, 09:31 AM

As this is the top Google result for "unexpected end of file in Command line code", I'll post what fixed this problem for me. It turns out I had placed the option I wanted to pass to my script between "php" and the script filename. Like this

Code:

php -r myscript.php

instead of

Code:

php myscript.php -r

As you work with the command line a lot, you get so used to adding a new option directly after the command name that this is a mistake easily made

. Just remove the option between "php" and the script name and re-add it after the script name and you're done!

norobro · 12-11-2014, 12:09 PM

Your problem was not where the option was placed (php -r myscript.php), it was that that the "-r" option is unnecessary for executing a file.

The "-r" option is for executing code directly. See the man page examples: link

NevemTeve · 12-11-2014, 12:26 PM

No, this '-r' was not meant for '/usr/bin/php', it was meant for 'myscript.php'.

norobro · 12-11-2014, 12:49 PM

Whoops. Exposed my lack of reading comprehension.