Media & Plugin screens stall

One of my co-workers was working on a different file for me and he found the issue.

there was a ` at the begining of the functions file.
So the functions.php file started:
`<?php

Which is why, I assume, I was getting an error on media that looked like it did.

Hope this helps someone because I was up against a wall.

Hata!: SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user 'divattrend_liink'@'localhost' (using password: YES)