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Hello,

I am working on a current install of 2.5.2.

I seem to be getting system errors from the most basic php enabled templates. I’ve switched them between input / output php parsing to see if it would make a difference.

Error Example:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘%’ in /home/dir1/public_html/system/expressionengine/libraries/Functions.php(680) : eval()‘d code on line 3

Code example:

<?php
$dob = new DateTime('{current_date format='%d %F %Y'}');
$now = new DateTime('{registration-first-day format='%d %F %Y'}');

// This returns a DateInterval object.
$age = $now->diff($dob);

// You output the date 
echo 'This person is ' .$age->format('%y') .' years old.';
?>

Tried embedding too:

$dob = new DateTime('{embed:the_current}');
$now = new DateTime('{embed:the_start}');

Is there something wrong with my install?

Hey Omega22,

You will want to select output parsing. Because you want to use those variables in PHP.

In PHP double quotes and single quites do different things.

The single quotes are literal.

Change all the single quotes into double quotes aside from the date formats.

That should get you back in business.

Cheers,