I use the following php code to calculate a 15% plus to a buy price of a hotel room:

where {price_tripple_luxury_03} is the short name of a custom entry field.

If {price_tripple_luxury_03} is not empty, the php renders fine.
However if {price_tripple_luxury_03} is empty, i get the following error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected ‘*’ in /kunden/xxxxxxxxxxx/toursys/eeengine/core/core.functions.php(569) : eval()‘d code on line 262

In EE 1.3.2 everything was fine. No parse error.
I’m getting this error since i upgraded to EE 1.4.

The (test)template:

Php is allowed in this template and “PHP Parsing Stage” is set to “Output”.

I’ll have to think on why it changed- but try adding a check:

That works, thank you.
But still, isn’t it strange that behavior?
That it worked in EE 1.3.2 but not in EE 1.4?
Nevertheless, thank you.

Yea- I’m trying to figure it out.  I think a few things were changed in how empty/nulls etc were entered into the db to accommodate different versions of php- so that might have something to do with it.  Basically looks like before, rest = 0*whatever in the case of an empty- which would be fine.  Now, maybe it’s rest = *whatever for an empty- thus the result looks like an encapsulated string.

Er- anyway, that’s what looks like is happening, and I suspect it may have to do with db defaults.  Maybe.