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updating working Drupal 5.2/CiviCRM install from 1.8 to 1.9 Beta,
per instructions
  [site offline; sessions table truncated, MySQL script ran without errs, etc.]

Drupal website is down, with white screen o' death/PHP error
  unless I disable CiviCRM Module (move civicrm directory out of site/all/modules tree)

 full error string:
   Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ',', expecting '(' in /home/www/<username>/<drupaldir>/sites/all/modules/civicrm/drupal/civicrm.module on line 477

civicrm.module source lines 475-485 say:

    if ( $userID ) {
        $html = CRM_Core_BAO_UFGroup::getEditHTML( $userID, '',
                                                   CRM_Core_Action::UPDATE, true,
                                                   $reset, null,
                                                   $doNotProcess, $ctype );
    } else {
        $html = CRM_Core_BAO_UFGroup::getEditHTML( $userID, '',
                                                   CRM_Core_Action::ADD, true,
                                                   $reset, null,
                                                   $doNotProcess, $ctype );
    }

which looks OK to me.

any other thoughts?

I do know my hosting company is still learning its way through supporting PHP5 (really!).


Adrian Russell-Falla
MoveOn Portland

good catch, Piotr!

many thanks!

phpinfo.php tells all...
  our host evidently silently reverted to PHP 4.4.7.

coding recommendo:
  would be good defensive practice to run a check for PHP5 early on, and put up a specific error message.
  save support messages & user stress..

cheers,


Adrian Russell-Falla

ps. I had the same problem trying 1.9 Alpha [obviously means my hoster had changed back to 4.4.7 at that time.]
however, didn't have time to persist or puzzle out on the night I was installing, so bailed out of the Alpha and reverted to 1.8
-- thereby possibly depriving the team of additional Alpha feedback...

we are having the same problem, with php 5.2.5 installed.
can y'all recommend another solution?
we just moved our server from verio to rackspace.
PHP Parse error: parse error, unexpected ',', expecting '(' in ... civicrm/drupal/civicrm.module on line 477

I added this to the top of my root htaccess and it worked:

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php

Hope this helps.