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Unmatched ‘}’

Description

PHP has encountered a closing curly brackets, but has no related opening curly bracket.

In more complex situations, there might be opening and closing brackets: 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 opening, 4 closing. 
{{{$b = 1 + 2}}}}

// this unmatched closing bracket is taken as literal
$b = "$a} = 1+2"; 

?>

Alternatives

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