to display product only, no qty/price, syntax error= unexpected T_STRING

[Dinnages]

Been adding products & customising over time, not yet promoted this section of site heavily, but...

I have addded a number of products for sale, yet just made my first product (or attempted to) to show it but without price/stock, intended as a display only, as its sold via another product & in with a special.

After doing this the error came up in my test!
Parse error:syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in
includes/languages/custom/english/shopping_cart.php on line 17

Have not recently changed that file & cannot work out what variable is causing this new problem.
If its related to 'display product' with no price or quantity set, then how can I still show some products without them being available to buy & incur the cart problem?

Cannot find any specific thread on this topic.
Shop on version 1.3.7 otherwise working great, waiting for 1.3.8 to settle down before a possible upgrade.

[Dinnages]

After doing this the error came up in my test!
Parse error:syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in
includes/languages/custom/english/shopping_cart.php on line 17

Since my earlier posting I think its not connected, as I mentioned as I now have the one product without quantity & a SOLD OUT image has replaced the ad to cart.

However, I still get the error message (in italics above) everytime anyone now goes to the shopping_cart.php
So now no one can buy anything if they wanted to, so how the heck has this suddenly started being a problem?

Totally baffled by that & as yet cannot work out whats on line 17 of the error.

txt version of php file attached!

[DrByte]

Have you tried deleting that file from your server and putting a fresh copy of the original uncustomized version into your custom folder?
Then see if it works.
Then customize it slowly ... one change at a time, testing carefully after each line to be sure things are fine ... until done.

[Dinnages]

Have you tried deleting that file from your server and putting a fresh copy of the original uncustomized version into your custom folder?
Then see if it works.
Then customize it slowly ... one change at a time, testing carefully after each line to be sure things are fine ... until done.

Thanks for picking up the plea for help DrByte.
I just cannot understand how it has got changed, not tinkered with that file itself ever to my recollection unless through the admin panel itself.

Shall locate an original & go from there.
Still yet to get the shop cart working as I like it as still selling through my former pages with each item having a 'buy-now' button coding.
When it does start generating some cash Id donate, but where does the money go?

[Dinnages]

Found just my added text for the page around line 17 was a problem, no coding had been altered, and it seemed to work after trying to change this;

'Low-Order Fee'
from single quotes to using codes;
- Low-Order Fee -

but worked with this;
<i>Low-Order Fee</i>
Nothing else was different!

All those at an early stage need sometimes is guide to the right place.
Thanks

[Kim]

Gordon-

PHP (the language Zen Cart is written in) is very picky about quotes - when used in a language definition the must be escaped - Escaping means putting a backslash in front of the single quote so that it is read correctly.

Example:

'Low-Order Fee'

becomes:

\'Low-Order Fee\'

[Dinnages]

Thanks for that added thought.
I have studied html & javascript enough to be able to write pages in notepad on the fly (no books to hand) have yet to master CSS, & have 2 books on PHP & thats a bit baffling hence I came to Zen-Cart for the leg up for a working & customisable cart.

Again it was just a very simple error, & so often many are.
I shall now repost the other query elsewhere.
Thanks folks