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4 Nov 2010, 5:44 PM
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Entire store is blank (PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end)

I am having a similar, but worse, problem. My entire store is blank. Every page. Logic tells me that the issue lies in my index.php or one of the primary templates, but I don't know PHP at all, so even looking at them, I would not know what I was looking at. I've just been stumbling along with a basic HTML knowledge and a LOT of reading here. :)

I had many changes to make last night, and while I always keep a mirror offline, it occurred to me that it's been a long time since I'd done a full server>local backup, so I did one. Then I made numerous changes to numerous files and locations, and let Filezilla re-upload the entire thing using the "Overwrite only if newer" selection.

I tried everything in the tutorial suggested earlier in this thread, but 1. my admin area is all blank, too, and 2. creating am /includes/local/configure.php file, as directed, changes nothing. Everything is still blank.

My suspicion is that something got lost last night in the server>local backup... trying to copy too many files at once. I tried copying one folder from local>server at a time today, but I think the damage already occured.

I'm at a complete loss.

My store is at: http://www.scrapconcepts.com/store/

Since it's faster than a redirect and provides another type of backup, I also have a straight HTML copy of what the store's index.php used to look like at http://www.scrapconcepts.com/

I've searched this forum quite a bit, but all responses so far only offer the tutorial with steps that I've already tried.

Thank you for any help.

4 Nov 2010, 5:49 PM
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Re: Entire store is blank (PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end)

If using v1.3.9 ... what debug log messages do you see in /cache directory?

If using an older Zen Cart, you could get from the Free Software Add Ons the:
Debug Tool

and install that then trigger the error and see what comes up as the problem ...

4 Nov 2010, 6:34 PM
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Re: Entire store is blank (PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end)

I'm using v1.3.9.

The most current files in cache and docs are a few weeks old, so I didn't think they'd be relevent?

I'll try downloading the tool, thank you. I misread, I guess, and thought it would just add the module that's already in my admin section, which I can't see...

4 Nov 2010, 6:58 PM
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Re: Entire store is blank (PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end)

If you are using v1.3.9 ... do NOT install the Debug Tool ... it is already built into v1.3.9 ...

When checking the files in the:
/cache

directory, be sure that you refresh ...

If you have old *.log files ... delete them all and then trigger the error again and refresh the directory to see if anything shows ...

4 Nov 2010, 7:06 PM
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Re: Entire store is blank (PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end)

That didn't work. I renamed the original debug tool with an "OLD" prefix and installed the new one. That worked.

It found this error: [04-Nov-2010 18:54:09] PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /home/cmmconce/public_html/scrapconcepts/store/includes/functions/functions_email.php on line 654

Seems weird that that would bring the whole site down, but I'll go look and see if I can see what the problem is. It's still Greek to me so far. :)

Obvious to anyone else what the above means?

Thank you, again.

4 Nov 2010, 7:08 PM
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Re: Entire store is blank (PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end)

Looks like the file just stops abruptly at line 644...

Perhaps as part of an issue when copying from server>local as the original tutorial suggests?

Still leaves me completely stymied regarding how to fix or replace. :)

4 Nov 2010, 7:10 PM
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Re: Entire store is blank (PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end)

You'll need to use your FTP program to upload a clean copy of that file to your server.

4 Nov 2010, 7:28 PM
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Re: Entire store is blank (PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end)

Where can I find a clean copy? My backup is messed up now, too.

4 Nov 2010, 7:31 PM
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Re: Entire store is blank (PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end)

You can find a link to download all versions of Zen Cart on the home page of https://www.zen-cart.com

4 Nov 2010, 7:49 PM
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Re: Entire store is blank (PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end)

I thought that was a full re-install. I didn't realize you could pull specific pages.

Thank you both very much for all of the help. I thought I was going to wind up completely rebuilding the whole thing. :)

4 Nov 2010, 8:40 PM
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Re: Entire store is blank (PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end)

It didn't work. The admin panel is back, but the entire store is still blank. I tried repeating the debugging process, but it doesn't return any new/additional errors.

I guess I'm reinstalling and reconfiguring everything. At least I can just re-upload things like the "Define Pages".

Thanks, again.