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I've been trying to get to setup a test environment on my PC using WampServer.  Today I finally got it to work.  However, I encountered an error in the civicrm.settings.php file.  I had to manually edit to it to get CiviCRM to run.

For my testing I used fresh installs of the latest versions of WordPress (3.5) and CiviCRM (4.2.6).  CiviCRM installed correctly but I got the following error when I tried to run it.

       Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in C:\wamp\www\wordpress\wp-content\plugins\civicrm\civicrm.settings.php on line 136

Lines 135 and line 136 of civicrm.settings.php are:

$civicrm_root = 'C:\wamp\www\wordpress/wp-content/plugins\civicrm\civicrm\';
define( 'CIVICRM_TEMPLATE_COMPILEDIR', 'C:\\wamp\\www\\wordpress/wp-content/plugins\\files\\civicrm\\templates_c\\' );
The above is a curious blend of slashes, back-slashes and double back-slashes.  Windows uses back-slashes.  However changing everything to backslashes did not fix the problem.  I'm not a PHP programer so I had to read up on string syntax (http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php) to figure this out.  It turns out the problem is in line 135 with the " \' ".

Here's the fixed code:

$civicrm_root = 'C:\wamp\www\wordpress\wp-content\plugins\civicrm\civicrm\\';
define( 'CIVICRM_TEMPLATE_COMPILEDIR', 'C:\wamp\www\wordpress\wp-content\plugins\files\civicrm\templates_c\\' );
You have to use backslashes everywhere except before a single quote where you need to use a double back-slash.