I built an e-commerce WP site for a client which has been live for a few months now. I am in the process of developing an added feature that involves custom PHP/database work uploading and manipulating an image. At this stage, it works fine on my local machine, and works fine when I set up a test site behind my portfolio site. So I tried uploading the three new files, and the edited functions.php file to the client’s server to test. This is what happened:
- When I am logged in, the website displays properly.
- When I am logged out, I get a white screen with the error message “Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘)’ in /home/picapoc2014/public_html/wp-content/themes/picapoc/functions.php on line 1”
I had error_reporting turned off in my wp-config.php file.
I went through my functions.php file with a fine-tooth comb (same file that was used in my test sites) and found no error such as a missing ‘;’, etc.
The file had been minified (hence, I thought, the line 1 indication), but when I unminified the file, I still got the same ‘line 1’ error.
The only other change I made was to add a table to the WP database.
What could be wrong? Does anybody have any idea of what I could do to solve this, that I haven’t already tried?
