Downloaded a fresh new installation instance last week. Tried installing it; terminated with following message:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting ']' in /home/xxxxxxx/public_html/acs/admin/db/maintenance_db.inc on line 34
The url on browser address bar had changed to http://xxxxxx/xxx/install/save.php

Able to display login page, but after many sql error statements.

Update.... went snooping into the file public_html/acs/admin/db/maintenance_db.inc :

<?php
/**********************************************************************
    Copyright (C) FrontAccounting, LLC.
    Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License,
    GPL, as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 
    3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  
    See the License here <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html>.
***********************************************************************/

/**
 * @return Returns the array sorted as required
 * @param $aryData Array containing data to sort
 * @param $strIndex name of column to use as an index
 * @param $strSortBy Column to sort the array by
 * @param $strSortType String containing either asc or desc [default to asc]
 * @desc Naturally sorts an array using by the column $strSortBy
 */
function array_natsort($aryData, $strIndex, $strSortBy, $strSortType=false)
{
   //    if the parameters are invalid
   if (!is_array($aryData) || !$strSortBy)
       //    return the array
       return $aryData;

   //    create our temporary arrays
   $arySort = $aryResult = array();

   //    loop through the array
   foreach ($aryData as $key => $aryRow)
       //    set up the value in the array
       $arySort[$strIn

Looks truncated, checked file sizes...all different from distribution. The ftp process must have gone bersek, for many files are effected. Iam doing a complete delete and re-upload/installation.

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chmod 777 [directory name]

for example:

chmod 777 frontaccounting

For the company directory use:

chmod -R 777 company

The -R is for recursive so it sets the permissions on all the sub files and folders in the given directory.

If you have an FTP server running you can always use a client such a Filezilla and set the permissions on the directories using this - much easier and less chance of making an error.

sorry, I was reared as a chemist and only had to take pascal or basic made a B+ lucky to have survived.

Were all the ticks at the top green when you started?

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/account/install/save.php:300) in /var/www/account/install/save.php on line 58

Returned to previous page, and at the top of the page an error message, Error: Cannot open the extension setup file '../installed_extensions.php' for writing.

installed_extensions.php cannot be found.

what next.

The install process creates all the config files you just need to make sure the installation directory is writeable. If unsure just chmod it to 777 for the install and then change it back once everything is installed and working.

As long as all the tick boxes are green on the top of the setup page then the install will work fine.

also, the creation of the config.php file in the dir is done by the Install page and therefore is shown as "unwritable" ?

Once this is done just re-upload the files to the directory and start the install again.

Make sure all the green ticks are lit up on the setup page and everything will install and be created as expected.

Warning: copy(../config.php) [function.copy]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/account/install/save.php on line 300

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/account/install/save.php:300) in /var/www/account/install/save.php on line 58

my sys is:

ubuntu 9.10 server ed. , AMD 64

thanx in advance

Have tries to delete and re-install files for the tar package yet still get the same errors:
Warning: include_once(./installed_extensions.php) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/account/frontaccounting.php on line 22

Warning: include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening './installed_extensions.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /var/www/account/frontaccounting.php on line 22

Warning: include_once(./lang/installed_languages.inc) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/account/includes/lang/language.php on line 15

Warning: include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening './lang/installed_languages.inc' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /var/www/account/includes/lang/language.php on line 15

Warning: include_once(./config_db.php) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/account/includes/session.inc on line 147

Warning: include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening './config_db.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /var/www/account/includes/session.inc on line 147

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/account/frontaccounting.php:22) in /var/www/account/includes/session.inc on line 161

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /var/www/account/frontaccounting.php:22) in /var/www/account/includes/session.inc on line 161

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/account/frontaccounting.php:22) in /var/www/account/includes/session.inc on line 163

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/account/includes/current_user.inc on line 489

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/account/includes/current_user.inc on line 489
FrontAccounting 2.2.5 - Login

So as a chemist I am lost. as a programer never had a chance.