Title: problem with index.php
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# problem with index.php

 *  [rice](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rice/)
 * (@rice)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-indexphp/)
 * ok i wanted to add the authors name to my posts so i tried somethign which i 
   found on here – This post was written by <?php the_author(); ?>
 * Not really knowing what i was doing i have now corrupted my index page 🙁 and
   when i go to my blog it says:
 * Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_CLASS in /home/.geebee/rhino_online/rhino-
   online/blog/wp-content/themes/default/index.php on line 6
 * Can anyone correct this for me with the code for author name in it, here is the
   code i have at the mo:
 * <?php get_header(); ?>
 *  <div id=”content” class=”narrowcolumn”>
 *  <?php if (have_posts()) : ?> <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post()
    <div class
   =”post” id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?> <h2>” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link
   to <?php the_title(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></h2> <small><?php the_time(‘F
   jS, Y’) ?> <!– by <?php the_author() ?> –></small>
 *  <div class=”entry”>
    <?php the_content(‘Read the rest of this entry »’); ?> 
   </div>
 *  <p class=”postmetadata”>Posted in <?php the_category(‘, ‘) ?> | <?php edit_post_link(‘
   Edit’, ”, ‘ | ‘); ?> <?php comments_popup_link(‘No Comments »’, ‘1 Comment »’,‘%
   Comments »’); ?>
    </div>
 *  <?php endwhile; ?>
 *  <div class=”navigation”>
    <div class=”alignleft”><?php next_posts_link(‘« Previous
   Entries’) ?></div> <div class=”alignright”><?php previous_posts_link(‘Next Entries»’)?
   ></div> </div>
 *  <?php else : ?>
 *  <h2 class=”center”>Not Found</h2>
    <p class=”center”>Sorry, but you are looking
   for something that isn’t here. <?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . “/searchform.php”);?
   >
 *  <?php endif; ?>
 *  </div>
 * <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
 * <?php get_footer(); ?>

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 *  Thread Starter [rice](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rice/)
 * (@rice)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-indexphp/#post-324570)
 * help anyone… 🙁

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 * Last activity: [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-indexphp/#post-324570)
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