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WordPress From Bootstrap to WordPress Setup a Bootstrap Theme Setup Your WordPress Development Environment

Martina Carrington
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Martina Carrington
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Martina Carrington
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bootstrap

i was trying to installed the bootstrap on my Xampp and some reason i received this

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '4' (T_LNUMBER), expecting ',' or ';' in C:\xampp\htdocs\index.php on line 3

Patrick Cooney
Patrick Cooney
12,216 Points

Can you post the code from your index.php file for us?

8 Answers

Martina Carrington
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Martina Carrington
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Martina Carrington
Martina Carrington
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i was following the video and place the bootstrap folder in the htdocs and i received error . i am using the apach

Martina Carrington
Martina Carrington
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Martina Carrington
Martina Carrington
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@Patrick Cooney, thanks . i was looking at the code and realized it was missing

Patrick Cooney
Patrick Cooney
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Excellent. Glad that's fixed. I changed my comment to an answer so people know this has been answered.

Patrick Cooney
Patrick Cooney
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Patrick Cooney
Patrick Cooney
12,216 Points

Is this the entire file? Do you have the closing ?>? I don't see any other obvious errors.

Martina Carrington
Martina Carrington
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Martina Carrington
Martina Carrington
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yes , this come from the wordpress project folder and i copy it and place it in the bootstrap folder . located in the htdoc

Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
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Good its solved :D i though you were doing something else :D i forogt Zac takes it from 0

Martina Carrington
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Martina Carrington
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Martina Carrington
Martina Carrington
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@Patrick Cooney

<?php
/**
 * Front to the WordPress application. This file doesn't do anything, but loads
 * wp-blog-header.php which does and tells WordPress to load the theme.
 *
 * @package WordPress
 */

/**
 * Tells WordPress to load the WordPress theme and output it.
 *
 * @var bool
 */
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);

/** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */
require( dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/wp-blog-header.php' );
Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points

You were trying to activate bootstrap in your WordPress site ? Do you know well enoguh WP ? and did you work with PHP includes before ? How did you wanted to install it?

Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points

What kind of database? your PHP MyAdmin?

Martina Carrington
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Martina Carrington
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Martina Carrington
Martina Carrington
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@Konrad pilch yes, it been created on PHP myAdmin but wordpress can't located the bootstraps_to_wp table.

Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points

Are you making a WordPress Theme?

It needs to be in htdocs .
You need to downolad wordpress and put it in htdocs.
You need to go on themes and put your site there.
YOu need to create a database.
YOu need to install wordpress.
It should connect automatically .

Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points

So is it working now ? : p

Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points

Are you back yet? xD