Hello,
I've just installed the module and here is the message I have on my browser:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /homez.323/prothesed/www/plugins/content/faqslider.php on line 24

Can someone tell what I have to do to fix this issue?.
Thanks a lot.

Arno.

Hi Arno

This is a PHP4 error by the looks of it. What version are you running. You really need PHP5... PHP4 is very old.

Hi Mattfaulds,
I have checked out and the version is PHP5.0 ... I don't know what to do?
Thanks.
Arnaud.

I'm getting the exact same error when I install the pluggin and my host is using PHP version 5.2.6.

I've uninstalled the pluggin to get back to a working site.

Ok guys, I'll explain the error message step by step:

1) php tries to parse the code
2) it gets as far as line 24 which is public function onPrepareContent( &$article, &$params, $limitstart ) in the code snippet below:
class plgContentFaqSlider extends JPlugin
{
public function onPrepareContent( &$article, &$params, $limitstart )
{
$app = &JFactory::getApplication();

3) you have a version of php that cannot understand the "public function" bit of line 24 - it thinks it is a string which is not allowed here - hence "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING"

This syntax (public/private) is a feature of php5.


So, although you seem to be using php5 you must have either:

php processing pointed to a php4 installation
or
php4 and 5 co-installed which I believe can cause this sort of problem


How can you sort this out? Well, there are two options:

1) contact your hosts and ask them to test your installation to see if you can successfully run any code which uses the same type of syntax (public/private functions etc)
2) strip the code of any public/private references (which essentially downgrades it to php4)

I really want to hear if you solve this as I'm 100% convinced that this is not an FAQSlider problem. The only other thing that I can think of is some whitespace being processed as a string on your server...

Good luck and Google around on the error if you don't believe me!

Just in case, I've cleaned all the whitespace. Try replacing faqslider.php with the attached file. The file is found in yourJoomlsFolder/plugins/content/

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