Question

Can someone please explain me why the following doesn’t work, or give me a link which explains why? I can’t find it here or on google.

This works:

var_dump( array( 'test' => rand(1,5) ) );

This does not:

$myClass = new myClass();
var_dump($myClass->array);

class myClass {

    public $array = array( 'test' => rand(1,5) );

}

It doesn’t like the function call in the array:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '(', expecting ')'

I guess it is my lack of understanding. If someone could help me to understand it, this would be nice.

Thanks!

Answer 1

$myClass = new myClass();
var_dump($myClass->array);

class myClass {

    public $array;

    function myClass(){
        $this -> array =  array( 'test' => rand(1,5) );
    }

}   

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