Question

I’ve been looking at it for a while and cannot figure out what the problem might be:

My Code:

<?php

    session_start();

    require "includes/config.php";
    require "includes/database.php";
    require "twitteroauth/twitteroauth.php";

    if(empty(CONSUMER_KEY) && empty(CONSUMER_SECRET))
    {
        exit("Please define Consumer Key and Consumer Secret Keys");
    }

    $connection = new TwitterOAuth(CONSUMER_KEY,CONSUMER_SECRET);
    $request_token = $connection->getRequestToken(OAUTH_CALLBACK);

    // Temporary credentials to make requests to Twitter
    $_SESSION["oauth_token"] = $request_token["oauth_token"];
    $_SESSION["oauth_token_secret"] = $request_token["oauth_token_secret"];

    switch ($connection->http_code)
    {
        case 200:
            $url = $connection->getAuthorizeURL($request_token);
            header("Location:".$url);
            break;
        default:
            die("Connection to Twitter failed. Please try again."); 
    }

?>

And the error is:

 ## 
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ')', expecting T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM in /home/.../connect.php on line 9
 ##

The line 9 part starts from

if(empty(CONSUMER_KEY) && empty(CONSUMER_SECRET))
{
    exit("Please define Consumer Key and Consumer Secret Keys");
}

CONSUMER_KEY and CONSUMER_SECRET, they are constants and defined in “includes/config.php” like below:

$config = parse_ini_file("config.ini");
define("CONSUMER_KEY",$config["TwitterAPI"]["Consumer_Key"]);
define("CONSUMER_SECRET",$config["TwitterAPI"]["Consumer_Secret"]);

Answer 1

Use defined instead of empty to check if a constant exists. empty and isset functions check if variables exist. If you’re wanting to check if it’s empty then just check the length.

Very random that this exact error happened to me about 2 hours ago…