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Hi there,
I am receiving this error message…
what is causing it?
what do I need to do?

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ELSE in system/expressionengine/libraries/Functions.php(659) : eval()‘d code on line 1

Am running EE 2.4

Cheers,
Edd

Here’s what I did to see what is causing the error. I opened Functions.php, and modified the evaluate function like this:

function evaluate($str)
 { 
  // return eval('?'.'>'.$str.'<?php ');  
  $x = eval('?'.'>'.$str.'<?php ');        
  if($x === false) {
   $timestamp = date("m-d-Y H:i:s");
   $msg = "Timestamp:".$timestamp."\n".$str;
   $fp = fopen("/var/tmp/evaluate_function.txt", 'a');
   fwrite($fp, $msg . "\n");
   fclose($fp);
   exit;
  } else {
   return $x;
  }
 }

What this does is if a template fails to parse, it saves the text from the template in a file so you can determine which template caused the error. I’m surprised that EE hasn’t given us a better way to do this.

Great thanks!