What's wrong with this php line? PHP Error

[halben]

I'm getting this : PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING on this line of code,

$link = '<a href="' . esc_url(wp_logout_url($redirect)) . '" title="' . esc_attr(__('Logout')) . '">' . esc_attr(__('Logout')) . '</a>';

Am I missing something?

 

 

Thanks,

hal

[mac_gyver]

the line of code you posted doesn't produce that error. the problem is on a line leading up to that one, usually a missing ;

 

look at 2-3 lines before that one.

[AbraCadaver]

It's probably the line before that one as that one is OK.  Try pasting it here in code tags and the syntax highlighting should show the error.  Also, if you use a good editor it should highlight errors.

[halben]

Here is what I have:

add_filter('wp_nav_menu_items', 'custom_menu', 50, 2);
function custom_menu($items, $args) {
if (is_admin() || $args -> theme_location != 'top_menu')
    return $items;

if (is_user_logged_in()) {
$user = wp_get_current_user();
$firstName = $user -> user_firstname;
$lastName = $user -> user_lastname;
$items .= '<li id="user-name" title="Edit" ><a href="' . esc_url(site_url('/profile')) . '">' . esc_attr($firstName) . ' ' . esc_attr($lastName) . '</a></li>';


$link = '<a href="' . esc_url(wp_logout_url($redirect)) . '" title="' . esc_attr(__('Logout')) . '">' . esc_attr(__('Logout')) . '</a>';
} else {
$link2 = '<a href="' . esc_url(site_url('/register')) . '" title="' . esc_attr(__('Register')) . '">' . esc_attr(__('Register')) . '</a>';
$items .= '<li id="register-link" class="menu-item menu-type-link">' . $link2 . '</li>';


$link = '<a href="' . esc_url(wp_login_url($redirect)) . '" title="' . esc_attr(__('Login')) . '">' . esc_attr(__('Login')) . '</a>';
}


return $items .= '<li id="log-in-out-link" class="menu-item menu-type-link">' . $link . '</li>';
}

[halben]

I've looked over the code over and over and I'm wondering if there is an escape issue? Or other codes before that.

[mac_gyver]

nope, the code in the post does not produce that syntax error.

 

some possibilities -

 

1) your actual code contains some smart/curly quotes or other non-ascii characters in the php code, and when you paste it into this forum, they are converted to straight quotes,

 

2) the actual file/line where the error is at is not the code you are looking at (perhaps you have multiple versions at different paths.)

 

has this code ever worked? are you typing this code or are you copy/pasting this from some web site (code is often 'published' using characters/encoding that isn't valid code)?

[halben]

I figured it out. It's silly.

 

I checked my error log and the error was posted 2 hours ago. I probably fixed it and forgot it was an old error. 

 

Sorry for your time and thanks for checking the code.

[mac_gyver]

during development, you should have your errors displayed, not logged.