Question

I am getting this unfamiliar error when running the code bellow. I can’t see what’s wrong.

Error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘{‘ in /var/www/crawler/sources.php on line 2

<?php
sourcelist($filename = '/var/resources/sources.list'){

if (is_readable($filename)){
$handle = fopen($filename, "r");
$contents = fread($handle, filesize($filename));
fclose($handle);

return(json_decode($contents));

} else {
return NULL;
}

}



print_r(sourcesList());
?>

This is the exact code snippet I run. What’s wrong?

Answer 1

You’re trying to define a function, but you’ve missed out the function keyword:

sourcelist($filename = '/var/resources/sources.list'){

should be

function sourcelist($filename = '/var/resources/sources.list'){

See the documentation on PHP functions.