The school district site I have set up with pmachine pro has been working wonderfully until today. I was setting up a weblog for a teacher and I’m getting a parse error.  They wanted to have two seperate weblogs on the same page.  I’m wondering if this might be the problem?  The error I receiv is this:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in D:\ChathamSD Web Page\staffpages\jwparkin\WebPage2\index.php on line 1

The page is here:
http://www.chathamsd.org/staffpages/jwparkin/WebPage2/index.php

Thanks a lot for any help.

Jamie

Most likely you have an error in the index.php file noted above.  Make sure any instances of pMachine tags have correct syntax.

I looked and it seems perfectly fine.  Every other blog on the district site is working perfectly and their setup is basically the same.  That is why I don’t understand the problem with this one. 

Could I possibly send you the file in question and see if you could find anything?  The teacher is on a deadline for a graduate class and needs to be able to show something for his work.

Jamie

Well, I figured it out.  For some reason our IIS server is unable to parse a PHP file that contains XHTML.  It works fine with ones that use only html but XHTML and it gives that unexpected T_STRING error.

Does anyone have experience with this and know a solution?

Jamie

Is it choking on something like this?

<?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“iso-8859-1”?>

  That was indeed the problem.  I removed that line from the pages that were not working and they display fine now.  Thanks Paul.

Do you know why IIS doesn’t handle pages like this the same way my linux server does?

Jamie

Not sure of the difference in server.  Could be a difference in PHP settings, I guess.

To get that line to display you might try something like this:

It’s the first “<?” part that’s choking it since that’s a shorthand version of the opening PHP tag.