Title: PHP variable-passing problem Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # PHP variable-passing problem * [joelwalsh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joelwalsh/) * (@joelwalsh) * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-variable-passing-problem/) * This is a page of PHP (not from WordPress but somewhere else) to convert a post into a PDF. You can see it here, in the PDF link in the right-hand box: [http://upmarketnewsletters.com/articles/sticky-post-2/](http://upmarketnewsletters.com/articles/sticky-post-2/) * I keep getting this error: Parse error: parse error, unexpected ‘(‘, expecting‘,’ or ‘;’ in /home/newslett/public_html/wp-content/themes/tannaghcolors/pdf.php on line 17 * Using the page below I set: var $HREF = get_the_content(); * ***********Here’s what I inserted up top to make it work with WordPress: * * ***********Here’s the original: * FPDF($orientation, $unit,$format); } * // Simple HTML to PDF converter function ConvertFromHTML($html) { $html = str_replace(“\ n”,’ ‘,$html); $a = preg_split(‘/<(.*)>/U’,$html,-1,PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE); foreach($a as $i=>$e) { if ($i % 2 == 0) { //Tekst if($this->HREF) $this->PutLink( $this->HREF,$e); else $this->Write(5,$e); } else { //Tag if ($e{0} == ‘/’) $this- >CloseTag(strtoupper(substr($e,1))); else { //Filter de attributen $a2 = explode(‘‘, $e); $tag = strtoupper(array_shift($a2)); $attr = array(); foreach ($a2 as $v) if (ereg(‘^([^=]*)=[“\’]?([^”\’]*)[“\’]?$’,$v,$a3)) $attr[strtoupper($a3[1])] =$a3[2]; $this->OpenTag($tag,$attr); } } } } * /* not yet used */ function Header() { //URL – space from side – space from top – width $imgurl = “…”; // header and wikilogo $this->Image($imgurl,3,3,$imgwidth);// Line break $this->Ln(30); } * /* not yet used */ function Footer() { //global $cfg, $config, $lang; //Positie 1.5 cm van de onderkant $this->SetY(-15); //Arial cursief 8 $this->SetFont(‘Arial’,’ I’,8); //Page number //$this->Cell(0,10,$cfg[“core”][“url”],0,0,’C’); //$this- >Cell(0,10,’ Page ‘.$this->PageNo().’/{nb}’,0,0,’C’); } * function OpenTag($tag,$attr) { if($tag==’B’ or $tag==’I’ or $tag==’U’) $this- >SetStyle($tag,true); if($tag==’A’) $this->HREF=$attr[‘HREF’]; if($tag==’BR’) $this->Ln(5); } * function CloseTag($tag) { if($tag==’B’ or $tag==’I’ or $tag==’U’) $this->SetStyle( $tag,false); if($tag==’A’) $this->HREF=”; } * //Wijzig stijl en selecteer lettertype function SetStyle($tag,$enable) { $this- >$tag+=($enable ? 1 : -1); $style=”; foreach(array(‘B’,’I’,’U’) as $s) if($this- >$s>0) $style.=$s; $this->SetFont(”,$style); } * function PutLink($URL,$txt) { // hyperlink as simple underlined text $this- >SetTextColor(0,0,255); $this->SetStyle(‘U’,true); $this->Write(5,$txt,$URL); $this->SetStyle(‘U’,false); $this->SetTextColor(0); } } * // Local Variables: // mode: php // tab-width: 8 // c-basic-offset: 4 // c-hanging- comment-ender-p: nil // indent-tabs-mode: nil // End: ?> * ********I inserted this to to close what I inserted up top: * Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) * [davidchait](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidchait/) * (@davidchait) * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-variable-passing-problem/#post-258036) * I could be wrong but: var $HREF = get_the_content(); looks like the line in question, and I believe ‘var’ statements can only be assigned a constant. So you need to assign get_the_content(); at some later point most likely. * -d * Thread Starter [joelwalsh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joelwalsh/) * (@joelwalsh) * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-variable-passing-problem/#post-258105) * Thanks! Where should I try moving get_the_content() to? * As you can see, I know nothing about php but this was supposed to be a pretty easy script. * [masquerade](https://wordpress.org/support/users/masquerade/) * (@masquerade) * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-variable-passing-problem/#post-258106) * David isn’t exactly correct, var can take a variable also. Can you pastebin the pdf file somewhere so that we can more easily see exactly which line the problem is on? * Thread Starter [joelwalsh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joelwalsh/) * (@joelwalsh) * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-variable-passing-problem/#post-258107) * What is pastebin? * Thread Starter [joelwalsh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joelwalsh/) * (@joelwalsh) * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-variable-passing-problem/#post-258108) * wait, I think this is the general idea with paste-bin, to see the php: * [http://upmarketnewsletters.com/wp-content/themes/tannaghcolors/pdf.php.txt](http://upmarketnewsletters.com/wp-content/themes/tannaghcolors/pdf.php.txt) Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) The topic ‘PHP variable-passing problem’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [extend](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/extend/) * [pdf](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/pdf/) * [php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/php/) * 5 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [joelwalsh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joelwalsh/) * Last activity: [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-variable-passing-problem/#post-258108) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics