Can Anyone Help?? – Parse error: syntax error.

Try re-uploading all files & folders from a fresh download of WordPress.

Just tried that there and its still showing the same message. Would it have anything to do with the SQL database information i am adding to the wp-cinfig.php file?

Try deleting the wp-config.php file and allowing WP to create it as part of the install process.

Naw, still showing the error after i deleted the wp-config.php file?????

Did you re-upload using a fresh download of WordPress?

yea

Can you try another download and re-upload? We need to rule out the possibility that you have two corrupted downloads.

Just completed the fresh download and re-install and its still showing the same error message:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /homepages/40/d333408217/htdocs/legenderry/wp-includes/option.php on line 225

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OK – bear with me. I’m going to see if I can get some more eyes on this one.

What hosting company and package are you using? Do you know what version of PHP your hosts are running?

Im using 1 and 1 hosting, unfortunately i don’t know about the PHP.

Haha! We have found a culprit thanks to some other gifted forum volunteers. There is indeed a bug in 3.4 that is only triggered on hosting that runs PHP 4 and PHP 5. That’s certainly the case with 1&1. The gory details are available at https://core.trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/21316 if anyone is interested.

In shirt, we think that WP is trying to use PHP 4 and then erroring out when it should – instead – be generating a message along the lines of “You need PHP 5.2.4 to run WordPress”. Since you’re using 1&1, there may be a way around this. Try adding

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php

an .htaccess file on your domain’s root folder. That should force PHP5, if I remember correctly.

Happy days, thats it sorted now, thank you very much for the help Esmi
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Excellent! Glad we were able to find a fix for this. ??

Brilliant, you just fixed my problem too. Thank you so much!