dan nessett 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.

I tried to find documentation on how to run the tests without success. If I simply haven't looked in the right place, a quick pointer to the appropriate instructions would be great. Otherwise, I wonder if someone could instruct me how to run them.

Thanks,

Dan

Perhaps you're running it with an old php version? You need php5 to run it. On some setups the php binary is php 4 and the php 5 cli is under the php5 name. Run php -v to find out which version is being executed. Try to run them with "php5 parserTests.php" if it wasn't php 5.