Unmatched ‘]’

Description

PHP has encountered a closing parenthesis, but has no related opening parenthesis.

In more complex situations, there might be opening and closing parenthesis: this error reports that there are more closing ones than opening. Eventually, some will not have a matching bracket.

Inside double-quoted strings, the unmatched closing brackets are ignored, and used as literal value.

Example

<?php

$a[1 + 2 = 3;

// One too many parenthesis
if (in_array(foo(), array()))) { doSomething(); }

?>

Alternatives

• Remove the closing curly bracket.
• Add an opening closing curly bracket.

Related error messages

• unclosed-‘(’
• unmatched-‘}’
• unmatched-‘)’
• [unclosed-‘(’-does-not-match-‘]’](unclosed-(-does-not-match-].html)
• syntax-error,-unexpected-string-content