PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected token "class" in /usr/share/php/smarty3/sysplugins/smarty_internal_templateparser.php on line 24

[philippe lhardy]

smarty 3.1.39-2ubuntu1 template parsing code is broken :

dpkg -l | grep smarty
ii smarty3 3.1.39-2ubuntu1 all Smarty - the compiling PHP template engine

Given this test.php file :

<?php

require('/usr/share/php/smarty3/Smarty.class.php');
$smarty = new Smarty();
$smarty->testInstall();

$smarty->assign('name', 'Ned');
$smarty->display('index.tpl');

?>

and those directories :

ls
cache configs templates templates_c test.php test.php~

find
.
./templates
./templates/index.tpl
./cache
./templates_c
./configs
./test.php~
./test.php

php test.php
<PRE>
Smarty Installation test...
Testing template directory...
/test/templates is OK.
Testing compile directory...
/test/templates_c is OK.
Testing plugins directory...
/usr/share/php/smarty3/plugins is OK.
Testing cache directory...
/test/cache is OK.
Testing configs directory...
/test/configs/ is OK.
Testing sysplugin files...
... OK
Testing plugin files...
... OK
Tests complete.
</PRE>
PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected token "class" in /usr/share/php/smarty3/sysplugins/smarty_internal_templateparser.php on line 24

problem is from a line containing 0 :

(...)
// line "./lexer/smarty_internal_templateparser.y"
0
// line 11 "./lexer/smarty_internal_templateparser.y"

/**
* Smarty Template Parser Class
*
* This is the template parser.
* It is generated from the smarty_internal_templateparser.y file
*
* @author Uwe Tews <email address hidden>
*/
class Smarty_Internal_Templateparser

[philippe lhardy (artlog)]

cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=22.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=jammy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS"

[philippe lhardy (artlog)]

This bug was referenced from https://github.com/ltb-project/self-service-password/issues/681

[philippe lhardy (artlog)]

This bug is major since it just make smarty3 totally unusable under ubuntu 22.04 for everybody.
It took me some time to open it just because i wondered how nobody else did hit this problem.
In fact i guess that many projects don't use system smarty3 library but either from code or another version like smarty4.

[Ed Martin (edman007)]

Same issue on debian, I put in the bug here https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1021571

[Mike Gabriel (sunweaver)]

Filed upstream:
https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/issues/822

[Mike Gabriel (sunweaver)]

Resolved via

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/smarty-lexer/-/commit/02985244bfb9062a708a7fd70235cfe06fc2f10f

in smarty-lexer. Src:pkgs smarty3 + smarty4 need a rebuild against smarty-lexer containing the above mentioned fix.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Harald Hetzner (haraldhetzner)]

This bug prevents FusionDirectory (1.3-4build1) from working in 22.04.1 LTS.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected token "class" in /usr/share/php/smarty3/sysplugins/smarty_internal_templateparser.php on line 24

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Harald Hetzner (haraldhetzner)]

Will this bug ever be resolved? As of #6 from 2022-10-25 the solution seems to be clear, but he smarty package in jammy has not been updated so far.

[Seth Arnold (seth-arnold)]

Harald, you can find some guidance on how to prepare an update for sponsoring on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

Thanks

[Zertrin (zertrin)]

For reference to other users waiting for an update, I resolved myself to directly edit /usr/share/php/smarty3/sysplugins/smarty_internal_templateparser.php on the three locations where there was a stray 0 (one near the beginning, one at line 2838 and the last one at the very end of the file).

Not great to edit files managed by the package manager, but I really needed an immediate temporary solution and this did it.