Title: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end

 *  Resolved [Beer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beer/)
 * (@beer)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-syntax-error-unexpected-end-2-2/)
 * I started seeing several of these messages in my error logs with different plugins.
   I tracked it down to an issue with php short tags.
 * Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end
 * You can manually edit the plugin files that cause the errors by changing every
   occurence of ‘<? ‘ to ‘<?php’
 * You can turn short_open_tag on in php.ini.
    short_open_tag = 1
 * You can set it in the .htaccess file
    php_flag short_open_tag on

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 * [short tags](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/short-tags/)
 * [short_open_tag](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/short_open_tag/)
 * [syntax error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/syntax-error/)

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 * Last reply from: [Beer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beer/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-syntax-error-unexpected-end-2-2/)
 * Status: resolved

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