PHP Unexpected character in input: ‘’’ (ASCII=39)
<p>A friend of mine is getting this error on ALL of her websites. They are all on the same server, externally hosted.(the hosting company says they cant help with scripting problems)</p>

<p>Each site even gives the exact some line number, but they all use different Index.php files. I am a bit stumped here, has anyone seen anything like this before?</p>

<pre><code>Warning: Unexpected character in input: ''' (ASCII=39) state=1 in /home/xxxx/public_html/index.php on line 17

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '.' in /home/xxxx/public_html/index.php on line 17
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<p>Here is one of the index.php files contents, line 1 - 25 or so</p>

<pre><code>&lt;?php get_header(); ?&gt;
&lt;link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" &gt;

&lt;div class="left-navi-blog"&gt;

    &lt;?php include "left-sidebar.php";?&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div class="center-blog"&gt;
&lt;?php if (have_posts()) : ?&gt;


     &lt;?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?&gt;

&lt;div class="post-title"&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a id="post-&lt;?php the_ID(); ?&gt;" href="&lt;?php the_permalink() ?&gt;" rel="bookmark" title=" &lt;?php the_title(); ?&gt;"&gt;&lt;?php the_title(); ?&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - 

                      &lt;ahh class="post-title-meta"&gt;&lt;?php the_time('F j, Y') ?&gt; by 

                             &lt;?php the_author() ?&gt;&lt;/ahh&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
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