Whois Script wont work

[colinb]

Hello
Been running version 2.11 for a while now with no problems.
Purchased the latest version last weekend and have tried both the upgrade route
and the fresh install route and keep getting the following error :-

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '{' in /home/users/uks44611/html/auctionscribe.com/whois/whois.php on line 23

Here is that portion of the script is it correct?

// +------------------------------
// initialize script and navigate
// +------------------------------
try
{
$EP_Dev_Whois = new EP_Dev_Whois();
$EP_Dev_Whois->navigate($_REQUEST['page']);
}
catch(Exception $e)
{
// prefer to catch exceptions yourself?-- Uncomment the line below:
// throw $e;
}


Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Regards
Colin

[Patrick]

The latest version uses PHP 5, which has been out for several years now. However, you are probably still using PHP 4.

You can either upgrade to PHP 5 (or move to a host that supports PHP 5) or you can disable the support for PHP5 exceptions (see below).

To disable exceptions, you will need to modify two files.
In whois.php, replace:

try 
{ 
    $EP_Dev_Whois = new EP_Dev_Whois(); 
    $EP_Dev_Whois->navigate($_REQUEST['page']); 
} 
catch(Exception $e) 
{ 
    // prefer to catch exceptions yourself?-- Uncomment the line below: 
    // throw $e; 
} 

With

$EP_Dev_Whois = new EP_Dev_Whois(); 
$EP_Dev_Whois->navigate($_REQUEST['page']); 

In global.php, replace:

throw new Exception($error); 

With:

die($error); 

Instead of throwing an exception that can be caught and handled by the script, the PHP execution will simply die with the error (this is how it worked in versions prior to 2.3x). However, PHP 5 has been out for a while now and you may be better served by upgrading PHP if you host yourself or ask your host / move to a host that supports PHP 5.