Question

I’m having difficulty with setting up a second sidebar for my WordPress theme.

Here’s the code for function.php:

<?php
if(function_exists('register_sidebar')){
    register_sidebar(array(
        'before_widget'=>'<li>',
        'after_widget'=>'</li>',
        'before_title'=>'<h2>',
        'after_title'=>'</h2>',
    ))
;
}
?>
<?php
if(function_exists('register_sidebar')){
    register_sidebar('home'array(
        'before_widget'=>'<li>',
        'after_widget'=>'</li>',
        'before_title'=>'<h2>',
        'after_title'=>'</h2>',
    ))
;
}
?>

This is the error I’m receiving when I try to access the widget options page in admin:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected
T_ARRAY in
C:\xampp\htdocs\tlc\wp-content\themes\tlc\functions.php
on line 14

Answer 1

to give it a name you use this syntax

 register_sidebar(array(
  'name' => 'RightSideBar',
  'description' => 'Widgets in this area will be shown on the right-hand side.',
  'before_title' => '<h1>',
  'after_title' => '</h1>'
));

not what you wrote

see this for more info
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_sidebar