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1. Yemoonyah
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #
   

   Hi,

   I'm helping a friend who's site is down due to a 500 internal server error.
   The eror logs tell me this:

   PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '.' in /thesis_182/custom/custom_functions.php on line 14

   The weird thing is, there is no file called 'thesis_182', just 'thesis_16'

   So I checked /thesis_16/custom/custom_functions.php on line 14
   where it says * function custom_bookmark_links() - outputs an HTML list of bookmarking links

   No unexpected '.' to be seen.

   Any suggestions how to fix this?
   Thanks

2. Andrew Nevins
   Volunteer Moderator
   Posted 9 months ago #
   

   Can you tell us exactly what is on line 14, custom_functions.php?

3. Yemoonyah
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #
   

   * function custom_bookmark_links() - outputs an HTML list of bookmarking links

4. Andrew Nevins
   Volunteer Moderator
   Posted 9 months ago #
   

   Is that exactly what line 14 says

5. Yemoonyah
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #
   

   thanks for helping!

6. Yemoonyah
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #
   

   that's all it says

   here is the context:

   /**
   * function custom_bookmark_links() - outputs an HTML list of bookmarking links
   * NOTE: This only works when called from inside the WordPress loop!
   * SECOND NOTE: This is really just a sample function to show you how to use custom functions!
   *
   * @since 1.0
   * @global object $post
   */

7. Yemoonyah
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #
   

   I fixed it. I had the host activate the default theme and then logged in and found some code errors in the custom_functions.php that didn't show via ftp. No clue how that is possible. Thanks for the help.

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