Question

My application is working totally fine in development environment. Once i uploaded it to my production server, i got the following error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_FUNCTION, expecting ‘)’ in
/home/fjamal/public_html/*/anyname/application/config/config.php
on line 27

The errors refers to the following code:

spl_autoload_register(function($class)
{
 if (strpos($class, 'CI_') !== 0)
 {
  if (file_exists($file = APPPATH . 'core/' . $class . EXT))
  {
   include $file;
  }
  elseif (file_exists($file = APPPATH . 'libraries/' . $class . EXT))
  {
   include $file;
  }
 }
}); 

If i change the above code to the older version as:

function __autoload($class)
{
 if (strpos($class, 'CI_') !== 0)
 {
  if (file_exists($file = APPPATH . 'core/' . $class . EXT))
  {
   include $file;
  }
  elseif (file_exists($file = APPPATH . 'libraries/' . $class . EXT))
  {
   include $file;
  }
 }
}  

I get the following error:

Fatal error: Class ‘Frontend_Controller’ not found in
/home/fjamal/public_html/**/anyname/application/controllers/home.php
on line 4

Explanation of the error: my controller extends from Frontend_Controller which resides in Libraries folder. Frontend_Controller extends from MY_Controller which resides under core folder. For some reason, all these problems in the production environment, i don’t get it in my localhost. Hence, home is default controller.

This error stops the application from running, i couldn’t figure it out at all. Any help will be appreciated.

Answer 1

I would guess that your production-server is running with PHP <5.3

Your code uses a anonymous function, they have been introduced in PHP 5.3.0

Solution: create a named function and use it as callback.