Add User ID & Forum Becomes Unusable

[PlopCat]

What I'm trying to do is add my admin so he can edit under the "Limited Guest Viewing System" &
"Register Take-Over Message Count" message in admin control panel in the forum.

When he clicks on the edit link ^ he gets

Sorry, you don't have permission to access the administrative controls on this page.

If you need to access this page, ask your lead administrator to enable your permissions for this page using the Administrator Permissions section of the control panel.

Under that there's another link "Administrator Permissions" he gets this

Sorry, you are not allowed to edit administrator permissions.

If you think you should have permission to access this page, you will need to edit the $config['SpecialUsers']['superadministrators'] variable in the includes/config.php file.

To allow the administrators to access this page, edit the variable to include the user IDs of those administrators should have access, separating each user ID with a comma, like this:

$config['SpecialUsers']['superadministrators'] = '1,25,57';

To allow only a single administrator to access this page, simply add that user's ID with no commas, like this:

$config['SpecialUsers']['superadministrators'] = '1';

I'm adding them from here in cPanel under the in the config.php file:
Account name>File manager>Web Root (public_html/www)>Forum>Includes>config.php and click Edit


So the whole point of this post is the error I get when his user ID is inserted to try to make him a super administrator:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /home/database name/public_html/forum/includes/config.php on line 116

And of course the the whole forum is unusable.

It says in the php code that I can add another user in there & think I'm doing it right. My ID is already in there so there will be two users.

My ID is like this already & works fine '1';
I've tried every which way to add him after me but get the same results

Why is this error coming up & what can I do about it?
I'll add this too. And what extra permissions will he get if he's added?

Thanks

[Infopro]

Can't help with the permissions for the forum question, you'll have to take that up with the software vendor. But it sounds to me like you're editing the file incorrectly somehow. Are you indeed editing line 116?

[PlopCat]

Can't help with the permissions for the forum question, you'll have to take that up with the software vendor. But it sounds to me like you're editing the file incorrectly somehow. Are you indeed editing line 116?

Thanks for answering. Yeah, I ask here in regards that it is cPanel I'm working in. I hope I am correct in this.

Line 116 is

****** USERS WITH ADMIN LOG PRUNING PERMISSIONS ******

I took myself out of that line even. That throws me for the

****** SUPER ADMINISTRATORS ******

it is on line 133.
I've tried the regular "Edit" & the "Code editor". Both result in the error message.

Anyone else care to give this a shot?

Thanks

[PlopCat]

Anyone? Or am I seeing this wrong as not a cPanel question?

[cPanelTristan]

It's more applicable to ask the forum where the script is made, which appears to be a forum of some sort. The forum name wasn't mentioned (phpBB, SMF, etc, on what it happens to be).

Anything to do with a specific script or application that isn't one we make would be easier to post on that script's forum as they are the experts for errors relating to it.

[PlopCat]

Thank you. That helps me more.

In the script at the top it says

All PHP code in this file is ?2000-2009 Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd....

And also (which may of answered my own question in part):

****** NOTE REGARDING THE VARIABLES IN THIS FILE ****** |
+---------------------------------------------------------+
| If you get any errors while attempting to connect to |
| MySQL, you will need to email your webhost because we |
| cannot tell you the correct values for the variables |
| in this file.

I still am not sure what code it is but I will ask my host on both of these questions.

Thanks for the explanation to this noob

[cPanelTristan]

It sounds like it's vBulletin based on it having Jelsoft at the top for the copyright. Their forum is at the following location:

vBulletin Forum

[Infopro]

It sounds like it's vBulletin based on it having Jelsoft at the top for the copyright. Their forum is at the following location:

vBulletin Forum

It also sounds like either a very out of date forum, or nulled.

It should say:

|| # Copyright ©2000-2010 vBulletin Solutions Inc. All Rights Reserved.

[PlopCat]

Thanks for both reply's Infopro & straightening the code thing up. I'll try the other forum.
We're using 3.8.5 so I don't know if that's why it said 2000-2009 Jelsoft... or not.