Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING, expecting ')'

VBSEO ate my entire forum.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING, expecting ')' in /home/brakkish/public_html/forum/includes/config_vbseo.php on line 479

This is the error I get after doing some custom rewrites. All was fine until my last rewrite. Probably missed a "." or "\" or " ' " somewhere. Something so small, can down my entire site. Surely there needs to be added some checks or something so other users don't fall into this. It's REAL easy to make a small mistake when typing in all the "stuff" to do a rewrite.

www.hammerfistclan.com/forum

I have a very large community wondering WTF right about now. Help!

You're likley missing a quote mark or a semi colon.

If you're using the form in the website, it should automatically //comment out bad commands. If you're doing it directly via includes/config_vbseo.php directly in an editor, there is no check.

Post your rules (here or in ticket if you prefer to keep it private) so we can fix for you

That's the major problem, once the error occurs it's a white screen of death. So there's not much in the way of info I can gather afterwards. Can't access, vbseo panel, can't access forum admin... nothing. I managed to fix the problem by re-installing vbseo.

And it's not auto commenting errors out. It's not the first time it's happened. (it's easy to make mistakes in the rewrite section when your eyes are tired) But most of the time I can use the back button, and fix my mistake, then re-save.

But anyway, feel free to mark this issue resolved (for me).. but just a fyi, the auto commenting out of errors does not seem to be working as intended, or at least on my site anyway.

Glad you got it fixed.

In the future if you have issues, instead of re-installing everything, you can manually open includes/coifig_vbseo.php and clear out (after saving a backup) the CRR/ CR arrays/strings.

ie,

Code:

 // ****** DEFINE CUSTOM REWRITE RULES ******
    $vbseo_custom_rules = array(
'^calendar\.php$' => 'calendar/',
'^calendar\.php\?c=1$' => 'calendar/',
'^calendar\.php\?(c=1&)?do=(display.+?)(&year=)?$' => 'calendar/$2/[NF]',
'calendar\.php\?(c=1&)?nojs=1' => 'calendar/nojs/[NF]',
'calendar\.php\?(c=1&)?do=(display.+?)&nojs=1' => 'calendar/$2/nojs/[NF]',
'calendar\.php\?(c=1&)?week=(\d+)&nojs=1' => 'calendar/week-$2/nojs/[NF]',
'calendar\.php\?(c=1&)?month=(\d+)&year=(\d+)&nojs=1' => 'calendar/$3/$2/nojs/[NF]',
'^calendar\.php\?do=getinfo&(c=1&)?day=(\d+)-(\d+)-(\d+)(&c=1)?$' => 'calendar/$2/$3/$4/',
'^calendar\.php\?do=getinfo&e=(\d+)(&day=[0-9\-]+)?(&c=1)?$' => 'calendar/event-$1/',
'^calendar\.php\?(s=&)?(c=1&)?(week=&)?month=(\d+)&year=(\d+)(&c=1)?(&do=displaymonth)?$' => 'calendar/$5/$4/',
'^calendar\.php\?c=1&week=(\d+)(&do=displayweek&month=.+?)?$' => 'calendar/week-$1/');

to:

Code:

 // ****** DEFINE CUSTOM REWRITE RULES ******
    $vbseo_custom_rules = array();

and the same concept for the next 3 as well:

Code:

$vbseo_custom_rules_text = '';
$vbseo_custom_301 = array();
$vbseo_custom_301_text = '';

You can then start over adding 1 at a time (or by sections, etc) to diagnos which one is causing the issue.

Ahh very good to know. Thanks for the help.