{"id":1174214,"date":"2016-10-09T04:36:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T11:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/syntax-errors-when-inserting-snippets-into-functions-php\/"},"modified":"2016-10-09T04:36:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T11:36:46","slug":"syntax-errors-when-inserting-snippets-into-functions-php","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/syntax-errors-when-inserting-snippets-into-functions-php\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax errors when inserting snippets into functions.php"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to customise some titles. I&#8217;ve followed the instructions on these two pages:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/knowledgebase\/url-as-word-button\/\">https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/knowledgebase\/url-as-word-button\/<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/knowledgebase\/altering-or-removing-titles-on-calendar-views\/\">https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/knowledgebase\/altering-or-removing-titles-on-calendar-views\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After inserting the snippets into my themes functions.php file I get a syntax error &#8220;unexpected T-string&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve researched the problem and had a play around&#8230; I can not seem to fix the issue so have hit a bit of a dead end. My functions.php file is in the &#8216;child-theme&#8217; folder of my theme&#8230; not sure if that affects anything?<\/p>\n<p>Any tips on what&#8217;s causing the problem would be greatly appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers<\/p>\n<p>Toby<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1174214","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Syntax errors when inserting snippets into functions.php -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/syntax-errors-when-inserting-snippets-into-functions-php\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Syntax errors when inserting snippets into functions.php -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hello, I&#8217;m trying to customise some titles. 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