PHP object property declaration error

Question

I'm having a bit of trouble defining a property in a PHP class I'm creating.

<?php
class news_parser {
    public $var1 = Array();
    function contents($parser, $data) {
        printf($data);
    }
    function start_tag($parser, $data, $attribs) {
        printf($data);
    }
    function end_tag($parser, $data) {
        printf($data);
    }
    function parse() {
        if(!$file = fopen("http://services.digg.com/2.0/story.getTopNews?type=rss&topic=technology", "r"))
            die("Error opening file");
        $data = fread($file, 80000);

        $xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
        xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, array($this, "start_tag"), array($this, "end_tag"));
        xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, array($this, "contents"));
        if(!xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fh)))
            die("Error on line " . xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser));
        xml_parser_free($xml_parser);
        fclose($fh);
    }
}

$digg_parser = new news_parser();
$digg_parser->parse();
echo phpversion();

?>

Produces the following error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /homepages/8/d335242830/htdocs/caseyflynn/php/display_formatted_RSS_feed.php on line 3

As far as I can tell I have the correct syntax. My server is running PHP 4.5. Any ideas?

Pekka · Accepted Answer · 2010-12-18 01:47:49Z

4

My server is running PHP 4.5

This is your problem: PHP 4 doesn't know the public keyword - along with a heap of other OOP features.

As @konforce says, in the code you show, you can simply switch to using the var keyword. But the best thing would really be to switch to PHP 5. PHP 4's time is really, really over.

answered Dec 18, 2010 at 1:47

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2 Comments

Matthew Over a year ago

You can replace public with var, but Pekka's advice still remains true.

Casey Flynn Over a year ago

Thanks guys, I normally work with PHP5 anyways but this is for a class and my professor has some odd reasons for sticking with PHP4 on his private web server.

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