diff --git a/htdocs/core/lib/functions2.lib.php b/htdocs/core/lib/functions2.lib.php
index 7cc14060aac..d16a2b90243 100644
--- a/htdocs/core/lib/functions2.lib.php
+++ b/htdocs/core/lib/functions2.lib.php
@@ -2384,3 +2384,75 @@ function price2fec($amount)
 
 	return $output;
 }
+
+/**
+ * Check the syntax of some PHP code.
+ * @param string $code PHP code to check.
+ * @return boolean|array If false, then check was successful, otherwise an array(message,line) of errors is returned.
+ */
+function phpSyntaxError($code)
+{
+	if (!defined("CR")) define("CR","\r");
+	if (!defined("LF")) define("LF","\n") ;
+	if (!defined("CRLF")) define("CRLF","\r\n") ;
+
+	$braces=0;
+	$inString=0;
+	foreach (token_get_all('<?php ' . $code) as $token) {
+		if (is_array($token)) {
+			switch ($token[0]) {
+				case T_CURLY_OPEN:
+				case T_DOLLAR_OPEN_CURLY_BRACES:
+				case T_START_HEREDOC: ++$inString; break;
+				case T_END_HEREDOC:   --$inString; break;
+			}
+		} else if ($inString & 1) {
+			switch ($token) {
+				case '`': case '\'':
+				case '"': --$inString; break;
+			}
+		} else {
+			switch ($token) {
+				case '`': case '\'':
+				case '"': ++$inString; break;
+				case '{': ++$braces; break;
+				case '}':
+					if ($inString) {
+						--$inString;
+					} else {
+						--$braces;
+						if ($braces < 0) break 2;
+					}
+					break;
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	$inString = @ini_set('log_errors', false);
+	$token = @ini_set('display_errors', true);
+	ob_start();
+	$code = substr($code, strlen('<?php '));
+	$braces || $code = "if(0){{$code}\n}";
+	if (eval($code) === false) {
+		if ($braces) {
+			$braces = PHP_INT_MAX;
+		} else {
+			false !== strpos($code,CR) && $code = strtr(str_replace(CRLF,LF,$code),CR,LF);
+			$braces = substr_count($code,LF);
+		}
+		$code = ob_get_clean();
+		$code = strip_tags($code);
+		if (preg_match("'syntax error, (.+) in .+ on line (\d+)$'s", $code, $code)) {
+			$code[2] = (int) $code[2];
+			$code = $code[2] <= $braces
+			? array($code[1], $code[2])
+			: array('unexpected $end' . substr($code[1], 14), $braces);
+		} else $code = array('syntax error', 0);
+	} else {
+		ob_end_clean();
+		$code = false;
+	}
+	@ini_set('display_errors', $token);
+	@ini_set('log_errors', $inString);
+	return $code;
+}
+