Title: Parse error: syntax error question?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Parse error: syntax error question?

 *  [brian914](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brian914/)
 * (@brian914)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-syntax-error-question/)
 * I get the following error, but since i don’t speak much php, I am not sure what
   to do. Below that is the document the error message is pointing to.
    Thanks a
   lot for any help with this!!!
 * Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘{‘ in /home/lstudio2/public_html/blog/
   wp-content/themes/simplebalance/header.php(17) : eval()’d code on line 1
 * Below is header.php:
 *     ```
       <?php
       $theme_options = get_option('SimpleBalance');
       ?>
       <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
       <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en">
   
       <head profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">
       	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="<?php bloginfo('html_type'); ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo('charset'); ?>" />
       	<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en" />
   
       	<title><?php bloginfo('name'); ?> <?php wp_title(); ?></title>
   
       	<?php if ($theme_options["hide_meta_gen"] == 0) { ?><meta name="generator" content="WordPress <?php bloginfo('version'); ?>" /><?php } ?>
   
       	<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />
   
       	<?php require_once("theme_licence.php"); eval(base64_decode($f1)); if (isset($theme_options["color_scheme"]) &amp;&amp; $theme_options["color_scheme"] != "default") {
       		$colorScheme = get_bloginfo('template_directory')."/schemes_".$theme_options["color_scheme"].".css";
       	?>
       	<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo $colorScheme; ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />
       	<?php } ?>
   
       	<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />
       	<link rel="alternate" type="text/xml" title="RSS .92" href="<?php bloginfo('rss_url'); ?>" />
       	<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom 0.3" href="<?php bloginfo('atom_url'); ?>" />
       	<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>" />
       	<link rel="shortcut icon" href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/favicon.ico" />
   
       	<?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly&amp;format=link'); ?>
   
       	<?php if ( is_single() ) wp_enqueue_script( 'comment-reply' ); ?>
   
       	<?php wp_head(); ?>
       </head>
   
       <body>
       <?php start_template(); ?>
       <div id="wrap">
   
       	<div id="header">
       		<div class="topLogo">
       			<?php if (is_single() OR is_page()) { ?>
       			<h2><a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h2>
       			<?php
       			} else { ?>
       			<h1><a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1>
       			<?php }	?>
       			<?php if ($theme_options["display_description"] == 1) { ?><span class="blogDescription"><?php bloginfo('description'); ?></span><?php } ?>
       		</div>
   
       		<div class="topMenu">
       		<ul>
       			<li<?php if (is_home()) { ?> class="current_page_item"<?php } ?>><a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>">Home</a></li><?php qbkl_nospace(wp_list_pages('include='.$theme_options["top_menu_pages"].'&amp;sort_column=menu_order&amp;depth=1&amp;title_li=')); ?>
       		</ul>
       		</div>
   
       		<div class="topSearch">
       			<form method="get" name="searchform" id="searchform" action="<?php bloginfo('home'); ?>">
       				<input type="text" value="Search this blog..." name="s" class="s" onfocus="if (this.value == 'Search this blog...') {this.value = '';}" onblur="if (this.value == '') {this.value = 'Search this blog...';}" />
       				<a href="javascript:document.searchform.submit();" class="searchSubmit">Search</a>
       			</form>
       		</div>
       	</div>
       ```
   

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 *  [arpowers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arpowers/)
 * (@arpowers)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-syntax-error-question/#post-1077497)
 * Is this a licensed theme?
 * It is an error on line 17 of this file… in all that php.
 * Its probably in the theme_licence.php file that is included.
 * Andrew // [pagelines.com](http://pagelines.com)
 *  Thread Starter [brian914](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brian914/)
 * (@brian914)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-syntax-error-question/#post-1077514)
 * Hey Andrew,
    thanks a lot for looking at my post!
 * What is a licensed theme?
 * It is for this theme.
    [http://www.wordpresstemplates.com/demo/?theme=Simple+Balance](http://www.wordpresstemplates.com/demo/?theme=Simple+Balance)

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