Cant reach the requirements page without php5 enabled [#668136]

Comment #1

hija commented 26 December 2009 at 13:36

Forgot, Using this release:

Nightly development snapshot from CVS branch: HEAD

Last updated: December 25, 2009 - 14:04

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Comment #2

asimmonds commented 28 December 2009 at 07:55

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Both of these lines are the start of a try {} block.

My guess is that you are attempting to use PHP 4 instead of PHP 5.2 (or later)

What is your PHP version?

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Comment #3

asimmonds commented 28 December 2009 at 21:55

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Just confirmed that this error is generated when you try install.php with PHP 4 (tried 4.4.9)

So you should upgrade your PHP version to (at least) 5.2 if you want to try Drupal 7

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Comment #4

hija commented 29 December 2009 at 20:13

Thank you!
you were right!
For some reason php5 seemed installed but i removed and reinstalled and now everything is running smooth!

I can see that the requirements page further inside the installation says i have php 5
yet this is completely useless if i can never reach this screen without having it enabled
how about moving the requirements screen before the error?

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Comment #5

hija commented 2 January 2010 at 15:42

Title:	Can't install! unexpected '{'	» Cant reach the requirements page without php5 enabled
Status:	Closed (won't fix)	» Active

Changed the title (was " Can't install! unexpected '{' ")
Not sure if I shouldn't have turned this to active though.
Any opinions?

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Comment #6

marcingy commented 3 January 2010 at 23:35

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» Closed (won't fix)

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Comment #7

gpk commented 4 January 2010 at 00:26

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As a minimum we need a handbook page (Troubleshooting/FAQ) about this error.

Even so, I wonder how many (hundreds??? thousands???) of forum topics there will be about this. The original op thought they had PHP5 enabled.. a simple check + error message would save many people many hours (including all the helpful people who assist in the forums). Many people's first experience of Drupal will otherwise be a parse error. Not quite sure how it would be best done though, given the structure of bootstrap.inc.