Title: Help. Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '.'
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Help. Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '.'

 *  [richclick2010](https://wordpress.org/support/users/richclick2010/)
 * (@richclick2010)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-parse-error-syntax-error-unexpected/)
 * Fresh Manual Install on GoDaddy Shared Hosting
    Edited wp-config.php per instructions
   Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘.’ in \wp-includes\user.php on line 588
   Here are lines 587 – 594:
 *     ```
       Line 587:$defaults = array(
       Line 588:	'show_option_all'../wordpress/wp-includes/ => '', 'show_option_none'../wordpress/wp-includes/ => '',
       Line 589:	'orderby'../wordpress/wp-includes/ => 'display_name', 'order'../wordpress/wp-includes/ => 'ASC',
       Line 590:	'include'../wordpress/wp-includes/ => '', 'exclude' => '', 'multi' => 0,
       Line 591	'show' => 'display_name', 'echo' => 1,
       Line 592	'selected' => 0, 'name' => 'user', 'class' => '', 'blog_id' => $GLOBALS['blog_id'],
       Line 593:	'id' => '',
       Line 594:	);
       ```
   
 * Please help me here. New to this so if more info is needed, please let me know.
   Thank you.

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 *  [threestyler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/threestyler/)
 * (@threestyler)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-parse-error-syntax-error-unexpected/#post-1588272)
 * Drop all the database tables via phpmyadmin, delete wp-config, upload a fresh
   wp-config.sample and visit your domain and run the web install instead and see
   what happens.
 *  [garyj517](https://wordpress.org/support/users/garyj517/)
 * (@garyj517)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-parse-error-syntax-error-unexpected/#post-1588552)
 * can you explain what you mean by “dropping” tables via phpmyadmin?

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