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Greetings, I used this guide to convert my custom theme:
http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/how-tos/designers/converting...

And receive this error when trying to activate it:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /var/hellhoster/webs/goliat-web/bogenschiessen-new/themes/holtkamp/default.php on line 1


My default php looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" >
<head>
   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8" />
   <? Loader::element('header_required'); ?>
   <meta name="robots" content="index, follow" />
   <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
   <link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/ico" />
   <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?=$this->getThemePath()?>styles.css" />    
    <!--[if lt IE 7]>
    <style media="screen" type="text/css">
    .col1 {
       width:100%;
   }
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Could anyone help me figure out what I am doing wrong? Line one means that it's the XML encoding line that's causing the problem, but I figure I am missing something basic here that's not in the tutorial? Thanks in advance.
Xyllomer
 
12345j replied on at Permalink Best Answer Reply
12345j
Remove the pho markers around the first line
Xyllomer replied on at Permalink Reply
Xyllomer
One night of sleep makes a big difference in my grey matter computing power, I see the ? were causing the problems now by conflicting with concrete5 code.

Out of idle curiosity I decided to research why that XML encoding tag in there is there in the first place and I eventually landed at a very interesting link, right here:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html...

This explains what the UTF-8 is for very nicely and it also lets me feel slightly better about completely deleting that line, because I have it in a meta tag telling my browser that the page is in xhtml UTF-8 under the header anyway:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8" />


Thanks again for the response!
Mnkras replied on at Permalink Reply
Mnkras
also, you can set the favicon in the dashboard, just so you know,