Cron syntax error

PHP
1

Hi

I am getting this below error while running script through cron

line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `('
line 1: `<?php require_once('config.php');'

No error is shown if i run script through browser.

Dont know why it is showing error while running through cron ??

thanks
Vineet

2

Try this:

`<?php require_once( "config.php" );'

// or this

"<?php require_once( 'config.php' );"

Please supply the before, offending and after lines.

Edit:
If the file is PHP then you should not have a leading single quotation before <?php

3

Hi John

Quotes got copied from my email because cron was sending error at my email id

In the PHP file there are not quotes before <?php

Also i tried both below versions, but they didnt worked.

require_once( "config.php" );
require_once( 'config.php' );

Same error is coming

vineet

4

Try this:

require_once  "config.php" ;
require_once  'config.php' ;

If that does not work then maybe the file is corrupt so try copying and pasting the contents into a text editor and over-writing the old file. Hopefully it will be BOM free

5

require_once is not a function, itā€™s a statement
http://php.net/manual/en/function.require-once.php

try
require_once "config.php";

EDIT
lol well, at least Discourse is ninja thread safe

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6

In the good old days when using PHP 4

http://www.nusphere.com/kb/phpmanual/function.require-once.htm?

Even though it is a statement, braces were allowed/required?


 The require_once() statement includes and evaluates the specified file during the execution of the script. This is a behavior similar to the require() statement, with the only difference being that if the code from a file has already been included, it will not be included again. See the documentation for require() for more information on how this statement works.
7

AFAIK there is no syntax difference between using the parentheses and not. Several places, actually, recommend you to not, because it isnā€™t a function. But Iā€™ve never come across any functional difference (see what I did there :smiley: :smiley: ). Iā€™d assume the best argument in favor of no-parenthesis is simply ā€œtype lessā€ - thatā€™s the reason I have tried to form the habit.

8

Maybe this is not an Error message but a Notice?

9

Yeah, could beā€¦ or maybe thereā€™s something farther up the code we need to see?

10

Any chance the error is from inside the config.php file?

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Hi

Here is my config file code.

Its working fine in browser without any error.

<?php $conn=mysql_connect("localhost","root","") or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("dbsupply",$conn);
session_start(); 
$now = time(); 
?>

vineet

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