HELP - formatting LOST!

[yellowdaises]

i'm about to pull my hair out. any help would be greatly appreciated!

i wanted to update zen-cart but decided against it for other reasons. i then needed to change the permissions on includes/configure.php to 644 but was having problems getting this error:

[07-Feb-2007 08:41:01] PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '?' in /home/.../public_html/includes/configure.php on line 68

i found that the ">" had been removed from behind the "?" and that made the error go away.

yet then i got this error:

[07-Feb-2007 08:44:57] PHP Warning: main(includes/application_top.php) [<a href='function.main'>function.main</a>]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/.../public_html/index.php on line 26

i realized i had changed the permissions for the folder "/includes" so i changed that back to 755 and the error went away. now though all my formatting is GONE... anyone ever have this happen to them?

[yellowdaises]

fixed my own problem but f/ those who have the same problem check out this FAQ...

https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/i...hp?article=235

[Kim]

Thanks for posting the process you went through to eliminate your problem.