Title: Common Issue – SyntaxError: Unexpected Token
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Common Issue – SyntaxError: Unexpected Token

 *  Resolved [sachristan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sachristan/)
 * (@sachristan)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/common-issue-syntaxerror-unexpected-token/)
 * This doesn’t seem to work at all, we still get daily people with multiple orders
   after they have received a SyntaxError: Unexpected Token.
 * Posted solution below:
 * > If you see this during checkout for example, it means that a plugin or theme
   > is throwing a notice during the ajax post and breaking the response.
   > To find out which plugin is doing this, view your sever error logs and look
   > for notices. Your host may be able to help you look for this log if you cannot
   > locate it.
   > To prevent plugins and themes from outputting notices entirely, ensure debug
   > mode is off in your wp-config file:
   > define(‘WP_DEBUG’, false);
   >  error_reporting(0); @ini_set(‘display_errors’, 
   > 0);
 * Can someone point us in the right direction we have customers who are sending
   in duplicate orders after their initial order has been accepted.
 * Thanks
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/)

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 *  [pixelyzed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pixelyzed/)
 * (@pixelyzed)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/common-issue-syntaxerror-unexpected-token/page/2/#post-6460839)
 * Ok, FYI, I just nailed my issue but I have no idea how to fix it.
 * Re-reading this thread I openend the Chrome Dev Tools and looked at the XHR requests
   to see the AJAX calls and saw the same kind of respons as honestaeb AND a much
   smalled bit of HTML code and text I recognized right away as it’s a notice I 
   added myself via hook.
 * In this case, the client sells coffee in 1 lb increments in either 1 or 2 lb 
   bags and I needed to check if any product in cart has 2 units of qty and if so,
   show the notice.
 * My function hooks on the woocommerce_check_cart_items hook. In there I have a
   conditional check for is_cart() || is_checkout(), inside that another check for
   quantity and if products are in specific categories then I use the wc_print_notice
   function to print a message.
 * I just tested commenting out that code in my child theme’s functions.php and 
   order went through without error. Here’s my entire code for this below. Any way
   I could modify that to avoid that error?
 * Thanks!
 *     ```
       add_action( 'woocommerce_check_cart_items', 'wfd_two_pounds_bags_warning_check' );
       function wfd_two_pounds_bags_warning_check () {
       	global $woocommerce;
   
       	// Only run in the Cart or Checkout pages
         if( is_cart() || is_checkout() ) {
   
       		$coffee_cats = array( 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 );
   
       		// Loop through the products in the Cart
           foreach( $woocommerce->cart->cart_contents as $product_in_cart ) {
       			if( $product_in_cart['quantity'] >= 2 && has_term( $coffee_cats, 'product_cat', $product_in_cart['product_id'] ) ) {
       				$cart_message = 'Si votre commande contient 2 livres et plus du même café, il sera livré en sacs de 2 livres. Si vous préférez le recevoir en sacs de 1 livre, veuillez le mentionner dans les <strong>notes de la commande</strong> sur la page de commande.';
   
       				if ( '2' == get_current_blog_id() ) {
       					$cart_message = 'If your order contains 2lbs or more of the same coffee, it will be shipped in 2lbs bags. If you prefer to get certain or all of your coffees in 1lbs bags, please mention so in the <strong>Order Notes</strong> on the Checkout page.';
       				}
   
       				wc_print_notice( $cart_message, 'notice');
       				break;
       			}
       		}
       	}
       }
       ```
   
 *  [Gebrael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gebrael/)
 * (@gebrael)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/common-issue-syntaxerror-unexpected-token/page/2/#post-6460848)
 * Exact same problem here:
 * SyntaxError: Unexpected token <
 * Disabled all plugins but WooCommerce on my local copy, changed theme to TwentyTwelve,
   added the above code in wp-config. Nothing works. Still getting that error.
 * Please this system is my way to pay my bills….
 * Thank You
 *  Plugin Contributor [Mike Jolley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikejolley/)
 * (@mikejolley)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/common-issue-syntaxerror-unexpected-token/page/2/#post-6460851)
 * Gebrael read the sticky post and check your gateways are compatible. Don’t post
   in other users threads – your qu will get buried.
 *  [Protect Uploads](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alticreation/)
 * (@alticreation)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/common-issue-syntaxerror-unexpected-token/page/2/#post-6460857)
 * Hello,
 * even with the following fix :
 *     ```
       define('WP_DEBUG', false);
       error_reporting(0);
       @ini_set('display_errors', 0);
       ```
   
 * The checkout form is greyed out.
 * I’m testing locally with Cheque payment, which is nothing to do with gateway 
   compatibility.
    When I remove the css greying out the form and submit the form
   I have the same error as everybody : `SyntaxError: Unexpected Token`
 * [EDIT]
    I just find out that the problem is only occuring on my local environment.
   When testing in a production server, the problem is no longer there. Any idea
   why ? My environments are slightly different but how this problem could be linked
   to an environment issue ?
 *  [Gebrael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gebrael/)
 * (@gebrael)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/common-issue-syntaxerror-unexpected-token/page/2/#post-6460858)
 * Sorry again but I´m more than 10 days with out any order because of this error,
   might I change the woocommerce for another pulgin, I need help from plugin author
   or I will break.
 * Thank You
 *  [tshelburn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tshelburn/)
 * (@tshelburn)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/common-issue-syntaxerror-unexpected-token/page/2/#post-6460864)
 * I have the same issues here. Using the latest WP, Woocommerce and Stripe from
   Woo. Debug enabled. I get this error even when Stripe is disabled using COD.
 * Chrome error-
    SyntaxError: Unexpected Token <
 * Firefox Error-
    SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column
   1 of the JSON data
 *  [kodzero](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kodzero/)
 * (@kodzero)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/common-issue-syntaxerror-unexpected-token/page/2/#post-6460870)
 * I had trouble my jewelry earrings site [http://cuff.ru](http://cuff.ru)
 * Chrome: “SyntaxError: Unexpected token < “
    Firefox: “SyntaxError: JSON.parse:
   unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data” IE: “SyntaxError: Invalid
   character” The problem is on ….\woocommerce\assets\js\fronted\chechout.js you
   have there line 359:
 *  wc_checkout_form.submit_error( ‘<div class=”woocommerce-error”>’ + errorThrown
   + ‘</div>’ );
 * change too:
 *  wc_checkout_form.submit_error( ‘<div class=”woocommerce-error”>’ + jqXHR.responseText
   + errorThrown + ‘</div>’ );
 * I hope this will help.
 *  [Dmitri](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leanlegion/)
 * (@leanlegion)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/common-issue-syntaxerror-unexpected-token/page/2/#post-6460871)
 * Thank you for posting a solution kodzero. The problem is that the checkout page
   uses checkout.min.js and I cannot find that line in the checkout.min.js file…
 *  [Dmitri](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leanlegion/)
 * (@leanlegion)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/common-issue-syntaxerror-unexpected-token/page/2/#post-6460872)
 * I was able to solve the problem, it had nothing to do with the woo commerce code
   or any official plugins. It was my fault, I had a function hooked to the woocommerce_payment_complete
   action which was outputting a number. I was able to discover this using the Google
   Developer tools, looking at the result of the ajax checkout request. I hope this
   helps.
 *  Thread Starter [sachristan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sachristan/)
 * (@sachristan)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/common-issue-syntaxerror-unexpected-token/page/2/#post-6460879)
 * This thread just shows how quickly their so called “plugin author” jolley wanted
   to get as far away from this as possible, totally absolve themselves from responsibility.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Mike Jolley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikejolley/)
 * (@mikejolley)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/common-issue-syntaxerror-unexpected-token/page/2/#post-6460880)
 * [@rob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rob/), already told you (all) where
   the problem will be coming from. I can’t log into your site and debug this for
   you. If the core gateways work you can be certain where the problem comes from.
   All woothemes gateways are compatible.
 *  [tkieneker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tkieneker/)
 * (@tkieneker)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/common-issue-syntaxerror-unexpected-token/page/2/#post-6460882)
 * [@mike](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mike/) – not even the generic “pay
   at pick up” or “Cash/Check” is working though. That also returns the same error.
   So it can’t be the payment gateways. I’ve disabled all plugins, set it to the
   default theme and I’m still returning the same error. Ironically I have enabled
   other popular shopping cart plugins and tested with them and I can get to paypal
   and process an order no problem. However, my store is already set up in WC and
   I would really not have to set up a whole new store.
 *  Thread Starter [sachristan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sachristan/)
 * (@sachristan)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/common-issue-syntaxerror-unexpected-token/page/2/#post-6460883)
 * [@mike](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mike/) i wouldn’t expect you to log
   into my site and debug it, but I would expect woothemes to be more responsive
   to an obvious problem instead of glossing over it with sarcasm and letting untold
   souls of supporters left out to flounder with their stores. This problem can 
   sink most sites, ruin store reputations and you need to be more sensitive to 
   that! So how about some help in find a solution. Its obviously not RESOLVED!
 * WooThemes & Automattic has to do better.
 * [@tkieneker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tkieneker/) we have also reduced
   our site to a default wootheme and disabled plugins and it still happens.
 * I have to agree with [@littlebizzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/littlebizzy/)
   this is a fiasco.
 *  [kstewart0976](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kstewart0976/)
 * (@kstewart0976)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/common-issue-syntaxerror-unexpected-token/page/2/#post-6460884)
 * I had this issue fixed by using the original de-bug code shown at the top and
   now it has reappeared!
 * I tried replacing the info in the wp-config and i am still getting this error.
 * now i am getting countless calls and emails about duplicate charges. when will
   this be corrected??
 *  [kstewart0976](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kstewart0976/)
 * (@kstewart0976)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/common-issue-syntaxerror-unexpected-token/page/2/#post-6460885)
 * I disabled the third party Authorize.net gateway and reinstalled the Woo Version
   and rather than the SyntaxError I am now getting this message:
 * “An error occurred while trying to report this transaction to the merchant. An
   e-mail has been sent to the merchant informing them of the error. The following
   is the result of the attempt to charge your credit card.
 *  This transaction has been approved.
    It is advisable for you to contact the 
   merchant to verify that you will receive the product or service.”
 * Which is what i was getting before and caused me to move to the third party plugin
   in the first place.
 * I need this RESOLVED and i am tired of everytime i have it corrected it reappears.

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