Posted by Oli Filth on 04/13/06 18:22

mb2812@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm getting the T_STRING error ("Parse error: syntax error, unexpected
> T_STRING in alexa5.php on line 26") when using the pack function:
>
> function calculate_RFC2104HMAC ($data, $key) {
> return base64_encode (
> pack ( "H*" , sha1((str_pad($key, 64 , chr ( 0 x00))
> ( str_repeat ( chr ( 0 x5c), 64 ))) .
> pack ( "H*" , sha1((str_pad($key, 64 , chr ( 0 x00))
> ( str_repeat ( chr ( 0 x36), 64 ))) . $data))))
>
> );
>
> }
>
> "Line 26" refers to line 3 above: "pack ("H....."
>
> I have no experience with pack, but the pack manual doesn't give me any
> clues as to the problem. I've commented out the pack stuff and replaced
> it with a print command to ensure it was this and not the previous line
> that is causing the problem.

It's nothing to do with the specific function - a parse error means
that your basic PHP syntax is incorrect. Check your opening/closing
brackets and comma separators on that line...

--
Oli

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