Title: Parse error, unexpected ‘;’
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Parse error, unexpected ‘;’

 *  Resolved [mrschmid](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrschmid/)
 * (@mrschmid)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-unexpected/)
 * I get the following error when trying to install on my 1and1 account. I do have
   the requirements to run wp.
    Parse error: parse error, unexpected ‘;’, expecting
   T_VARIABLE or ‘$’ in /homepages/23/d90060060/htdocs/blog/wp-includes/functions-
   post.php on line 599 I’ve searched the forums and checked the functions-post.
   php but I don’t see what it’s talking about. Here’s line 599 $pung[] = $; I’m
   totally new to anything php mysql related, but I really want to learn. Here’s
   the versions on my host: Here are the versions of our Shared Hosting packages
   such as your package: Language Version Apache 1.3.29 Perl 5.6.1 PHP 4.3.6 MySQL
   4.0.20 GD Library 2.0.21 with GIF support Thanks for your help.

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 *  Thread Starter [mrschmid](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrschmid/)
 * (@mrschmid)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-unexpected/#post-261157)
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-unexpected/#post-261167)
 * Delete the file ‘functions.php’
    Upload another. Do not overwrite. If that fails,
   delete all the files inside the /wp-inludes directory, then reupload new. Overwriting
   will cause errors, so delete first.
 *  Thread Starter [mrschmid](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrschmid/)
 * (@mrschmid)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-unexpected/#post-261195)
 * Thanks so much! Deleting the functions.php didn’t work, but deleting the entire
   directory and uploading again did. Thanks!

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 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [mrschmid](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrschmid/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-unexpected/#post-261195)
 * Status: resolved

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