By tpeelen on

All,

My ISP recently upgraded to PHP5.3. It gave me several problems because this PHP version is not yet supported by Drupal (will be in Drupal 7). However several work-arounds are available and well documented in this forum.

One issue however I did not find yet. On the page that displays the modules (site construction) some errors like below occur:

warning: syntax error, unexpected BOOL_TRUE in modules/<any module>/<any module>.info on line 3 in /.../includes/module.inc on line 195.

Probably it has something to do with the gtrans module I'm using, but I'm not sure. Anyway I found a working solution that I like to share with anyone having the same problem. I will answer my own question for this (split personality ;-) ).

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tpeelen’s picture

tpeelen commented

I found it has something to do with text being interpreted. For instance my comment module gives the following description in comment.info:

; $Id: comment.info,v 1.3 2006/11/21 20:55:34 dries Exp $
name = Comment
description = Allows users to comment on and discuss published content.
package = Core - optional
version = VERSION

; Information added by drupal.org packaging script on 2009-12-16
version = "5.21"
project = "drupal"
datestamp = "1260996627"

In the description the word "on" is used. This seems to result in "description" being interpreted as a boolean. Putting double quotes around the text resolves the issue. So I changed the description line into:

description = "Allows users to comment on and discuss published content."

Probably it is not a good way to resolve the issue permanently the way it should, but it works for me to get around it. Maybe someone can give a more permanent solution?

jonathan_hunt’s picture

jonathan_hunt commented 
Index: modules/node/node.info
===================================================================
--- modules/node/node.info	(revision 18588)
+++ modules/node/node.info	(working copy)
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ; $Id: node.info,v 1.3 2006/11/21 20:55:34 dries Exp $
 name = Node
-description = Allows content to be submitted to the site and displayed on pages.
+description = "Allows content to be submitted to the site and displayed on pages."
 package = Core - required
 version = VERSION
 
Index: modules/drupal/drupal.info
===================================================================
--- modules/drupal/drupal.info	(revision 18588)
+++ modules/drupal/drupal.info	(working copy)
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ; $Id: drupal.info,v 1.3 2006/11/21 20:55:34 dries Exp $
 name = Drupal
-description = Lets you register your site with a central server and improve ranking of Drupal projects by posting information on your installed modules and themes; also enables users to log in using a Drupal ID.
+description = "Lets you register your site with a central server and improve ranking of Drupal projects by posting information on your installed modules and themes; also enables users to log in using a Drupal ID."
 package = Core - optional
 version = VERSION
 
Index: modules/comment/comment.info
===================================================================
--- modules/comment/comment.info	(revision 18588)
+++ modules/comment/comment.info	(working copy)
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ; $Id: comment.info,v 1.3 2006/11/21 20:55:34 dries Exp $
 name = Comment
-description = Allows users to comment on and discuss published content.
+description = "Allows users to comment on and discuss published content."
 package = Core - optional
 version = VERSION
 
Index: modules/poll/poll.info
===================================================================
--- modules/poll/poll.info	(revision 18588)
+++ modules/poll/poll.info	(working copy)
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ; $Id: poll.info,v 1.3 2006/11/21 20:55:35 dries Exp $
 name = Poll
-description = Allows your site to capture votes on different topics in the form of multiple choice questions.
+description = "Allows your site to capture votes on different topics in the form of multiple choice questions."
 package = Core - optional
 version = VERSION
joris.verschueren’s picture

joris.verschueren commented

thanks for this solution, it worked fine for me.
I had this problem (also Drupal 5) with:

  1. modules/poll/poll.info on line 3
  2. modules/node/node.info
  3. modules/drupal/drupal.info
  4. modules/comment/comment.info
  5. sites/all/modules/scheduler/scheduler.info
  6. sites/all/modules/actions/actions.info
  7. sites/all/modules/image/contrib/image_import/image_import.info
  8. sites/all/modules/image/contrib/image_gallery/image_gallery.info
  9. sites/all/modules/extlink/extlink.info
  10. sites/all/modules/asset/asset_import/asset_import.info

And a similar issue in line 4 with Module Add On

  1. sites/all/modules/feedapi/parser_common_syndication/parser_common_syndication.info
  2. sites/all/modules/feedapi/feedapi_node_views/feedapi_node_views.info
  3. sites/all/modules/feedapi/feedapi_aggregator/feedapi_aggregator.info
Lios’s picture

Lios commented

Nice, this worked like a charm! After solving problems with ereg, split, parameter 1 and other annoying stuff, I was happy to so easily find a solution for this problem. Thanks for posting :-)

s13’s picture

s13 commented

Hi,

I was also having the same problem. But my solution is a little bit different. I hope it may be helpful for others.

I just replaced the following (line 195 in module.inc):

$info = parse_ini_file($filename);

with this:

$info = parse_ini_file($filename,false,INI_SCANNER_RAW);

and it worked like a charm.. all errors are removed.

ecasanes’s picture

ecasanes commented

It really works for me. This method is much convenient than replacing each file with another code. I recommend others to try this.

astra’s picture

astra commented

There are a lot of errors in my site under D5 after upgrading to php5.3:

warning: syntax error, unexpected BOOL_TRUE in sites/all/modules/actions/actions.info on line 3 in .../includes/module.inc on line 195.
warning: syntax error, unexpected BOOL_TRUE in sites/all/modules/cck_field_perms/cck_field_perms.info on line 3 in .../includes/module.inc on line 195.
warning: syntax error, unexpected BOOL_TRUE in modules/comment/comment.info on line 3 in .../includes/module.inc on line 195.
warning: syntax error, unexpected BOOL_TRUE in modules/drupal/drupal.info on line 3 in .../includes/module.inc on line 195.
warning: syntax error, unexpected BOOL_TRUE in sites/all/modules/glossary/glossary.info on line 3 in .../includes/module.inc on line 195.
warning: syntax error, unexpected BOOL_TRUE in sites/all/modules/image/contrib/image_gallery/image_gallery.info on line 3 in .../includes/module.inc on line 195.
warning: syntax error, unexpected BOOL_TRUE in sites/all/modules/image/contrib/image_import/image_import.info on line 3 in .../includes/module.inc on line 195.
warning: syntax error, unexpected BOOL_TRUE in modules/node/node.info on line 3 in .../includes/module.inc on line 195.
warning: syntax error, unexpected BOOL_TRUE in modules/poll/poll.info on line 3 in .../includes/module.inc on line 195.
warning: syntax error, unexpected BOOL_TRUE in sites/all/modules/taxonomy_access/taxonomy_access.info on line 3 in .../includes/module.inc on line 195.
warning: syntax error, unexpected BOOL_TRUE in sites/packing/modules/views_bulk_operations/views_bulk_operations.info on line 3 in .../includes/module.inc on line 195.
warning: syntax error, unexpected BOOL_TRUE in sites/packing/modules/workflow/workflow_access.info on line 3 in .../includes/module.inc on line 195.
warning: syntax error, unexpected BOOL_TRUE in sites/packing/modules/workflow/contrib/workflow_workflow_ng/workflow_workflow_ng.info on line 3 in .../includes/module.inc on line 195.
warning: syntax error, unexpected BOOL_TRUE in modules/comment/comment.info on line 3 in .../includes/module.inc on line 195.
warning: syntax error, unexpected BOOL_TRUE in modules/node/node.info on line 3 in .../includes/module.inc on line 195.
warning: syntax error, unexpected BOOL_TRUE in sites/all/modules/glossary/glossary.info on line 3 in .../includes/module.inc on line 195.
warning: syntax error, unexpected BOOL_TRUE in sites/all/modules/actions/actions.info on line 3 in .../includes/module.inc on line 195.
warning: syntax error, unexpected BOOL_TRUE in sites/packing/modules/views_bulk_operations/views_bulk_operations.info on line 3 in .../includes/module.inc on line 195.
warning: syntax error, unexpected BOOL_TRUE in sites/packing/modules/workflow/workflow_access.info on line 3 in .../includes/module.inc on line 195.
warning: syntax error, unexpected BOOL_TRUE in sites/packing/modules/workflow/contrib/workflow_workflow_ng/workflow_workflow_ng.info on line 3 in .../includes/module.inc on line 195.

I replaced the following the line 195 in module.inc

$info = parse_ini_file($filename);

with new line

$info = parse_ini_file($filename,false,INI_SCANNER_RAW);

It seems to fix all of them.