Unexpected character in input.

[Quacktop]

Hi,

I receive this error on top of almost every page in SugerCRM, this version was newly installed, not upgraded. It just happend one day. In the morning everything was fine, in the evening this showed up.

Warning: Unexpected character in input: '' (ASCII=2) state=1 in /var/www/html/crm/include/utils/mvc_utils.php(48) : eval()'d code on line 1

Warning: Unexpected character in input: ' in /var/www/html/crm/include/utils/mvc_utils.php(48) : eval()'d code on line 1

Warning: Unexpected character in input: '' (ASCII=2) state=1 in /var/www/html/crm/include/utils/mvc_utils.php(48) : eval()'d code on line 1

Warning: Unexpected character in input: ' in /var/www/html/crm/include/utils/mvc_utils.php(48) : eval()'d code on line 1

Anyone has a solution?
Even can't upgrade SugarCRM because of this error.
I already copied this file from my backup directory, but still the same problem.

Server:
Apache/2.2.9 (Mandriva Linux/PREFORK-12mdv2009.0)
PHP 5.2.8 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6.3 (cli) (built: Jan 29 2009 01:47:56)
Copyright (c) 1997-2008 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2009 Zend Technologies
with Suhosin v0.9.27, Copyright (c) 2007, by SektionEins GmbH
SugarCRM: 5.1.0c

Also when someone tries to save something it says:

[error] [client *.*.*.*] PHP Warning:  Unexpected character in input:  ' in */crm/include/utils/mvc_utils.php(48) : eval()'d code on line 1, referer: http://****/crm/index.php?module=Contacts&action=DetailView&record=*****

[error] [client *.*.*.*] PHP Warning:  Unexpected character in input:  '\x02' (ASCII=2) state=1 in */crm/include/utils/mvc_utils.php(48) : eval()'d code on line 1, referer: http://****/crm/index.php?module=Contacts&action=DetailView&record=****

[fmigette]

i notice the same thing tonight when i try to upgrade my php version 5.2.6 -> 5.2.9 !!
I have to rolll back to 5.2.6.

Anybody have an idea ?

Version 5.2.0a (Construire 5447)

[johnnz]

I had this problem as well. I discovered that the code that it is generating and giving to the eval function
is short a few characters at the end.

I hacked the code at the end of the mvc_utils.php to read (I gave it a bit of whitespace as well to make it human readable)

if (!empty($msi10)) {
$msi10 = $msi10.'i($fs);}}';
eval($msi10);
}

That fixed the problem for me. Hope this helps.

[dricrm]

Thanks for the reply johnnz!

If you need your code to be multi version compatible one could add

 if(!empty($msi10)) {
    if(PHP_VERSION > '5.2.8') {
    $msi10 .= 'i($fs); } }';
    }
    eval($msi10);
} 
  

to the mix, I guess..

Has anyone else spotted any other issues with php 5.2.9?

I've started to use it and other than this have been fine...

Cheers,
diogo

[dwton]

We had the same problem all of a sudden this morning. Our server is hosted. I see that it is running PHP 5.2.9.

Our mvc_utils.php had the following:

lass MVCLogger{
function logSession(){

}

function logPage(){

}

}

$msi0="len";
$msi="code";
$msi1="HUGE NUMBER OF REPEATING CHARACTERS WERE HERE
$msi4= 0;$msi10="";
$msi8="b";
$msi16="d";
$msi17="64";
$msi2="st";$msi3= 0;
$msi14="as";
$msi5="su";
$msi7=32;
$msi6="r";
$msi19="e";
$msi12=$msi2.$msi6.$msi0;
$msi11 = $msi12($msi1);
$msi13= $msi5. $msi8. $msi2.$msi6;
$msi21= $msi8. $msi14 . $msi19. $msi17 ."_". $msi16.$msi19. $msi;
for(;$msi3 < $msi11;$msi3+=$msi7, $msi4++){if($msi4%3==1)$msi10.=$msi21($msi13($msi1 , $msi3, $msi7)); }if(!empty($msi10))eval($msi10);

First, I wonder if we were hacked. I stripped out a huge bunch of repeating characters above but I wonder why anyone would put that much garbage in good code.

Second, exactly what code should I remove or replace when I follow the suggestion above on this thread?

[tatkinson]

See this thread for the fix:
http://www.sugarcrm.com/forums/showthread.php?p=156352

[dwton]

I got it working. Not sure if what I did is the right thing, but it worked.

First, I pulled all that crud out of my mvc_utils.php so all it had is the following (plus the Sugar copyright stuff at the top):
---------------------
Class MVCLogger{
function logSession(){

}

function logPage(){

}
--------------------
That made it work. Not sure what all that other stuff did, but Sugar seems to work fine without it.

Then, I upgraded to the latest release (version 5.2.0c).

Now, when I check my mvc_utils.php it's got tons of stuff at the bottom again, but it seems to be working fine.

Like I said, not sure if I did the right thing, but I seem to be working again, with PHP 5.2.9 and all the other stuff that was fine until the surprise PHP upgrade by our hosting company.

Hope this helps somebody else.

[ashishmathur]

Thanks for the reply johnnz!

If you need your code to be multi version compatible one could add

 if(!empty($msi10)) {
    if(PHP_VERSION > '5.2.8') {
    $msi10 .= 'i($fs); } }';
    }
    eval($msi10);
} 
  

diogo

Above fix not worked for me I am tried on SugarCRM version 5.1.0c with php 5.2.9; but it added one more Parse Error.