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Yeah, that seems like what it is. Thanks for your help!

Yes, that is all that is in index.php. I have attached a screenshot. [attachment deleted by admin]

Yeah, I didn't think there was a problem, but that is the error I am getting. I wonder if it has anything to do with my PHP installation. Is there anything I should check?

Hello, As you can see by my name, I am not a programmer. I have programmed before, but I don't do this everyday. I need to setup a Wake On Lan script to remotely wake up some PCs. I found a script on this site that seemed promising: http://www.hackernotcracker.com/2006-04/wol-wake-on-lan-tutorial-with-bonus-php-script.html . I then setup an Ubuntu (10.04) Linux in a virtual machine and installed a LAMP server. I tested the PHP by using this code: <?php phpinfo(); ?>. Works fine. I can also echo out text no problem. When I use the WOL script, I get no output. So I enabled error reporting in the php.ini, and I get the following error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /var/www/wol/index.php on line 4 The code: --------------------------------------------------------------------- <?php flush(); function WakeOnLan($addr, $mac,$socket_number) { $addr_byte = explode(':', $mac); $hw_addr = ''; for ($a=0; $a <6; $a++) $hw_addr .= chr(hexdec($addr_byte[$a])); $msg = chr(255).chr(255).chr(255).chr(255).chr(255).chr(255); for ($a = 1; $a <= 16; $a++) $msg .= $hw_addr; $s = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, SOL_UDP); if ($s == false) { echo "Error creating socket!\n"; echo "Error code is '".socket_last_error($s)."' - " . socket_strerror(socket_last_error($s)); return FALSE; } else { $opt_ret = socket_set_option($s, 1, 6, TRUE); if($opt_ret <0) { echo "setsockopt() failed, error: " . strerror($opt_ret) . "\n"; return FALSE; } if(socket_sendto($s, $msg, strlen($msg), 0, $addr, $socket_number)) { echo "Magic Packet sent successfully!"; socket_close($s); return TRUE; } else { echo "Magic packet failed!"; return FALSE; } } } $socket_number = "7"; $mac_addy = "00:1E:90:0A:5A:89"; $ip_addy = gethostbyname("192.168.1.10"); WakeOnLan($ip_addy, $mac_addy,$socket_number) ?> --------------------------------------------------------------------- This line: $addr_byte = explode(':', $mac); is line 4 What am I doing wrong? Thanks for your help.