{"id":2516997,"date":"2012-01-20T01:54:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T01:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/syntax-error-33\/"},"modified":"2016-08-20T04:26:52","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T04:26:52","slug":"syntax-error-33","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/syntax-error-33\/","title":{"rendered":"syntax error"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was removing a signature function out of my functions.php of my lightworld theme. When I hit update I got this
\nParse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘<‘ in \/hermes\/bosweb\/web031\/b310\/ipg.droidlabsca\/wp-content\/themes\/lightword\/functions.php on line 9<\/p>\n

here is the area that I was editing, does anything seem wrong?<\/p>\n

<?php
\nif (!empty($_SERVER[‘SCRIPT_FILENAME’]) && ‘functions.php’ == basename($_SERVER[‘SCRIPT_FILENAME’]))
\ndie (‘Please do not load this page directly. Thanks!’);<\/p>\n

$themename = “LightWord”;
\n$shortname = “lw”;
\n$top_header_image_path = get_template_directory_uri().”\/images\/header-image.png”;<\/p>\n

(((((I PLACE IT HERE)<\/p>\n

if ( ! isset( $content_width ) ) $content_width = 550;<\/p>\n

$options = array (<\/p>\n

array(\t“name” => “Welcome”,
\n\t\t\t“type” => “title”),<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-2516997","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/2516997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/2516997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2516997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}