On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 3:59 PM, dan nessett<[email protected]> wrote: > > I have been struggling to figure out how to run the parser tests. From the > very limited documentation in the code, it appears you are supposed to run > them from a terminal. However, when I cd to the maintenance directory and > type "php parserTests.php" I get the following error message. > > Parse error: parse error, expecting `T_OLD_FUNCTION' or `T_FUNCTION' or > `T_VAR' or `'}'' in > /Users/dnessett/Sites/Mediawiki/maintenance/parserTests.inc on line 43 > > Either there is some setup necessary that I haven't done; parserTests.php is > not the appropriate "top-level" target for the execution; you are not > supposed to run these tests from the terminal; or there is something else I > am doing wrong.
You're running them correctly. It sounds like your installation is broken. Please say exactly what version of MediaWiki you're using (from Special:Version), and make sure that parserTests.inc was correctly copied from the download. Paste line 43 and the surrounding lines here. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
