Parse Error when choosing registration list

[eric.johnson2012]

I'm having an issue connecting to iContact (I think)

I get the following error after putting in (and saving) the correct username/password/API Key in the JContact Main Settings. I've reset the API password numerous times with no luck. It looks like a PHP error, but I find it hard to believe that jContact would have a PHP error right out of the box.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in ....site_path..../joomla15/components/com_jcontact/includes/jcontact_api.php on line 7

I plugged the jcontact_api.php file into a php checker and it returns the same error. Dreamweaver also shows that lines 1-16 are:

Marked Invalid because it's not the correct format for an HTML tag.

Here are the first few lines of the jcontact_api.php file:

Code:

<?php
defined('_JEXEC') or die( 'Restricted access' );
error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE);
define('STATUS_CODE_SUCCESS', 200);
class ICJApi
{
    public $username;
    public $password;
    public $api_key;
    public $token;
    public $seq;
    public $base;
    public $authenicated;
    public $method;
    public $api_url;
    public $data;
    public $appId;

Any and all feedback is helpfull.

[Barrie North]

Its looking like iContact have changed something on their API. We are investigating...

[eric.johnson2012]

Thanks for the quick reply. Let me know what you find out.

-Eric Johnson

[eric.johnson2012]

Any update on this? And is anyone else having the same or similar problem?

[Barrie North]

We have tested our installs on different sites, and can't duplicate the error.

Talking to a couple of users, its usually because of errors in the password that's being set, iContact in this regard is very confusing.

[eric.johnson2012]

Thanks, I just tried reinstalling with no luck. I also created a new iContact account and added the Jcontact to the API just like the directions showed and got the same results.

I just installed joomla on the hosted server a few weeks ago. Below is the system info, can someone let me know if all of this is correct?

System info:
PHP Built on:       Linux infong 2.4 #1 SMP Tue Dec 18 22:34:10 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
Database Version:    5.0.81-log
Database Collation:    utf8_general_ci
PHP Version:    4.4.9
Web Server:    Apache
Web Server to PHP interface:    cgi
Joomla! Version:    Joomla! 1.5.14 Stable [ Wojmamni Ama Naiki ] 30-July-2009 23:00 GMT
User Agent:    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.14) Gecko/2009082707 Firefox/3.0.14 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

PHP Settings:
Safe Mode:      Off
Open basedir:    None
Display Errors:    On
Short Open Tags:    On
File Uploads:    On
Magic Quotes:    On
Register Globals:    On
Output Buffering:    Off
Session Save Path:    /tmp
Session Auto Start:    0
XML Enabled:    Yes
Zlib Enabled:    Yes
Disabled Functions:    None
Mbstring Enabled:    Yes
Iconv Available:    Yes
WYSIWYG Editor:    Editor - No Editor

[Barrie North]

You must have a minimum of PHP5 installed.

[eric.johnson2012]

Thanks again Barrie! My webspace is hosted through 1&1 and .php extensions were defaulting to php 4, so I just had to add a .htaccess file to have it default to php 5.

So PHP 5 is installed, and I had to reinstall the J!Contact Component for it to work. But I got it to connect with the trial account I created. However I'm still receiving Authentication errors (3 of them) with the actual account I'm trying to interface with. So I'm contacting iContact API support to figure out how to fix this.

[Barrie North]

Can you post the exact errors and when you get them....

[eric.johnson2012]

Here's a screen shot of it.

[Barrie North]

I think that occurs when the password is not correct. iContact's API is a little clumsy there. Make sure its set correctly, the API has a different password.

[bborque]

The above error is exactly what I am getting. I have used the API password and even changed it multiple times. Still I cannot get it to work. I keep getting the authentication errors just like the picture above. Could iContact have changed the API and now jContact is not compatible?

[eric.johnson2012]

Somehow, the problem was in my username. In iContact, when I go to user preferences it showed my username in all lower case. In the JContact Main Settings, it only worked when the first letter of username was capitalized. I have no idea why.

[melissat719]

I also figured out that the problem was in my username. Even though it has multiple CAPS in it, I had to put it into main settings as all lowercase. All of a sudden it finally began talking. I can see my lists.