unexpected $end

mamabear0604 · May 16, 2011

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /home/mamabear/public_html/wordpressdate.php on line 46

I have googled this as well as combed through several forums. I have tried editing this code, but for the life of me I just can't seem to figure out what is casuing this error. I am sure by now everything is starting to look the same after staring at it for hours.

<!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">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body><?php  // define mysql connect
$dbname = "*****";
$dbuser = "*****";
$dbpass = "*****";
$dbhost = "localhost"; // this will usually stay 'localhost'

$my_table = "pa-videos"; // define wordpress table name

$gmt_offset = '-6'; // -8 for California, -5 New York, -6 Missouri etc.

// I'm setting into the future year so WordPress can publish as , else I would use 1 for min and 60 for max, for last 2 months.
$min_days_old = -365; // the minimum number of days old
$max_days_old = 7; // the maximum number of days old

// connect to db
mysql_connect($dbhost,$dbuser,$dbpass);
mysql_select_db($dbname);

$result = mysql_query("SELECT ID FROM $my_table") or die(mysql_error());
while ($l = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$post_id = $l['ID']; 
echo "Updating: $post_id
“;

$day = rand($min_days_old, $max_days_old);
$hour = rand(0, 23);

$new_date = date;( ‘Y-m-d H:i:s’, strtotime(“-$day day -$hour hour” ) );
$gmt_new_date = date( ‘Y-m-d H:i:s’, strtotime(“-$day day -$hour hour -$gmt_offset hour” ) );

mysql_query(“UPDATE $my_table SET date=’$new_date’ WHERE ID=’$post_id’” )
or die(mysql_error)));

}

echo “
DONE!”;

?>

PLEASE help. I appreciate any help and support someone is able to offer. TY

kenrbnsn · May 16, 2011

First replace all the "smart quotes" with normal quotes:

“ ” is not the same as " "

That error is usually caused by mis-matched curly braces "{ }" or mis-matched quotes.

Ken

Maq · May 16, 2011

You need regular double quotes.

echo "DONE!";

In the future, please place

tags around your code.

mamabear0604 · May 16, 2011

Ok I went through and corrected the smart quotes. and the echo and now i am getting this

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/mamabear/public_html/wordpressdate.php on line 35

<!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">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body><?php  // define mysql connect
$dbname = "*****";
$dbuser = "*****";
$dbpass = "*****";
$dbhost = "localhost"; // this will usually stay 'localhost'

$my_table = "pa-videos"; // define wordpress table name

$gmt_offset = '-6'; // -8 for California, -5 New York, -6 Missouri etc.

// I'm setting into the future year so WordPress can publish as , else I would use 1 for min and 60 for max, for last 2 months.
$min_days_old = -365; // the minimum number of days old
$max_days_old = 7; // the maximum number of days old

// connect to db
mysql_connect($dbhost,$dbuser,$dbpass);
mysql_select_db($dbname);

$result = mysql_query("SELECT ID FROM $my_table") or die(mysql_error());
while ($l = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$post_id = $l['ID']; 
echo "Updating: $post_id
";

$day = rand($min_days_old, $max_days_old);
$hour = rand(0, 23);

$new_date = date;( ‘Y-m-d H:i:s’, strtotime("-$day day -$hour hour" ) ); 
$gmt_new_date = date( ‘Y-m-d H:i:s’, strtotime("-$day day -$hour hour -$gmt_offset hour" ) );

mysql_query("UPDATE $my_table SET date=’$new_date’ WHERE ID=’$post_id’" )
or die(mysql_error)));

}

echo "DONE!";

?>

Line 35

 $new_date = date;( ‘Y-m-d H:i:s’, strtotime("-$day day -$hour hour" ) );

Maq · May 16, 2011

You have a semi-colon and you're using weird quotes again. Change them to '

$new_date = date;( ‘Y-m-d H:i:s’, strtotime("-$day day -$hour hour" ) );

QuickOldCar · May 16, 2011

you have an extra semi-colon after date

$new_date = date;(

There's still more smart quotes there, open the file in a word editor such as notepad2 and you will see them.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad2/

Maq beat me, lol

mamabear0604 · May 16, 2011

well i got almost all the errors over with. now its telling me

No database selected

<!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">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body><?php  // define mysql connect
$dbname = "*****";
$dbuser = "*****";
$dbpass = "*****";
$dbhost = "localhost"; // this will usually stay 'localhost'

$my_table = "pa_videos"; // define wordpress table name

$gmt_offset = '-6'; // -8 for California, -5 New York, -6 Missouri etc.

// I'm setting into the future year so WordPress can publish as , else I would use 1 for min and 60 for max, for last 2 months.
$min_days_old = -365; // the minimum number of days old
$max_days_old = 7; // the maximum number of days old

// connect to db
mysql_connect($dbhost,$dbuser,$dbpass);
mysql_select_db($dbname);

$result = mysql_query("SELECT ID FROM $my_table") or die(mysql_error());
while ($l = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$post_id = $l['ID']; 
echo "Updating: $post_id
";

$day = rand($min_days_old, $max_days_old);
$hour = rand(0, 23);

$new_date = date( 'Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime("-$day day -$hour hour" ) );
$gmt_new_date = date( 'Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime("-$day day -$hour hour -$gmt_offset hour" ) );

mysql_query("UPDATE $my_table SET date='$new_date' WHERE ID='$post_id'" )
or die(mysql_error());

}

echo "DONE!";

?>

Am i missing something somewhere. What this is suppose to do is randomize post dates for a wordpress blog. I already have the code for pulling the posts out of myphpadmin. I just want to randomize dates for the posts.

Ty so much for your help.

Maq · May 16, 2011

Change this line to:

mysql_select_db($dbname) or die(mysql_error());

mamabear0604 · May 16, 2011

got that fixed forgot to add my user.

mamabear0604 · May 16, 2011

I also corrected the line of code that you said. and now it says Updating: 1 Unknown column 'date' in 'field list'

Boy the site I pulled this off of had some big errors in it.

Ty for your help

mamabear0604 · May 16, 2011

Got it done thread can be closed. TY for all your help

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