Urgent Help needed!

TheOracle:

Which installation process did you chosed from your test folder / server ? (Full or Upgrade ?)

I chose upgrade

Then, you made a mistake somewhere while following the upgrade instructions from the docs folder of the package. Otherwise, it is doubtful a function would be redeclared.

Note: Some files also needs to be deleted (as per accordingly instructed from the upgrade instructions). :wink2:

so should I restore to the previous week and re do the upgrade? Just to see what's goin on?

The best step would be to restore your backup and try again. :thumbsup:

Ok I give up.... I tried again and I get the same errors.

Now... I went back on a back up .

But I get errors

my control panel works tho. I did try replacing the index.php from a fresh install folder....did not work.

Any ideas? :(

View Source in the browser says:```html

[an error occurred while processing this directive]

Here's the error log:

31-Mar-2006 12:40:21] PHP Parse error: parse error, unexpected '.', expecting ',' or ';' in /home/blueripp/public_html/includes/classes/categories_ul_generator.php on line 34
[31-Mar-2006 12:40:30] PHP Parse error: parse error, unexpected '.', expecting ',' or ';' in /home/blueripp/public_html/includes/classes/categories_ul_generator.php on line 34
[31-Mar-2006 12:42:19] PHP Parse error: parse error, unexpected '.', expecting ',' or ';' in /home/blueripp/public_html/includes/classes/categories_ul_generator.php on line 34
[31-Mar-2006 12:51:11] PHP Parse error: parse error, unexpected '.', expecting ',' or ';' in /home/blueripp/public_html/includes/classes/categories_ul_generator.php on line 34
[31-Mar-2006 12:51:12] PHP Parse error: parse error, unexpected '.', expecting ',' or ';' in /home/blueripp/public_html/includes/classes/categories_ul_generator.php on line 34
[31-Mar-2006 12:56:04] PHP Parse error: parse error, unexpected '.', expecting ',' or ';' in /home/blueripp/public_html/includes/classes/categories_ul_generator.php on line 34
[31-Mar-2006 12:56:06] PHP Parse error: parse error, unexpected '.', expecting ',' or ';' in /home/blueripp/public_html/includes/classes/categories_ul_generator.php on line 34
[31-Mar-2006 13:08:58] PHP Parse error: parse error, unexpected '.', expecting ',' or ';' in /home/blueripp/public_html/includes/classes/categories_ul_generator.php on line 34
[31-Mar-2006 13:10:12] PHP Parse error: parse error, unexpected '.', expecting ',' or ';' in /home/blueripp/public_html/includes/classes/categories_ul_generator.php on line 34
[31-Mar-2006 13:10:13] PHP Parse error: parse error, unexpected '.', expecting ',' or ';' in /home/blueripp/public_html/includes/classes/categories_ul_generator.php on line 34
[31-Mar-2006 13:10:14] PHP Parse error: parse error, unexpected '.', expecting ',' or ';' in /home/blueripp/public_html/includes/classes/categories_ul_generator.php on line 34
[31-Mar-2006 13:11:37] PHP Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING, expecting T_VARIABLE in /home/blueripp/public_html/includes/classes/categories_ul_generator.php on line 34

Can you post the top 40 lines of that file:
/includes/classes/categories_ul_generator.php

<?php
//
// +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
// |zen-cart Open Source E-commerce                                       |
// +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
// | Copyright (c) 2003 The zen-cart developers                           |
// |                                                                      |
// | [url]http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php[/url]                                    |
// |                                                                      |
// | Portions Copyright (c) 2003 osCommerce                               |
// +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
// | This source file is subject to version 2.0 of the GPL license,       |
// | that is bundled with this package in the file LICENSE, and is        |
// | available through the world-wide-web at the following url:           |
// | [url]http://www.zen-cart.com/license/2_0.txt[/url].                             |
// | If you did not receive a copy of the zen-cart license and are unable |
// | to obtain it through the world-wide-web, please send a note to       |
// | [email][email protected][/email] so we can mail you a copy immediately.          |
// +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
// $Id: categories_ul_generator.php 2004-07-11  DrByteZen $
//      based on site_map.php v1.0.1 by networkdad 2004-06-04
//

 class zen_categories_ul_generator {
   var $root_category_id = 0,
       $max_level = 5,
       $data = array(),
       $root_start_string = '',
       $root_end_string = '',
       $parent_start_string = '',
       $parent_end_string = '',

       $parent_group_start_string = '<ul%s>',
       $parent_group_end_string = '</ul>',

       $child_start_string = '<li%s>',
       $child_end_string = '</li>',

       $spacer_string = '',
       $spacer_multiplier = 1;

   function zen_categories_ul_generator($load_from_database = true) {
     global $languages_id, $db;
  $this->data = array();
  $categories_query = "select c.categories_id, cd.categories_name, c.parent_id

Okay - well, I don't see a '.' in there anywhere near line 34.

You could try re-uploading that file in case there are some hidden or corrupted characters in there.

You could also disable the categories_css sidebox in the interim until things are fixed, so that your shop is not offline.

The v1.2.x version is in the list here:
https://www.zen-cart.com/archived_contributions/sideboxes/

The v1.3.x version is here:
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=40_52

Thank you!