Question

I created a file test.class.php containing the following code in a LAMP environment:

<?php

class MyClass 
{
    public var $variable;
};

$obj = new MyClass();

?>  

When I run:

php myclass.php

from the command line, I get the error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /path/html/_dev/classes/test.class.php on line 5

If I access the same file via the browser, I get no errors. Any suggestions on what might be happening?

Answer 1

Figured it out. The PHP CLI version that the PHP command defaults to in my environment is PHP 4.4.8.

My host also has a PHP5 command set up to use PHP 5.2.14. When I executed the command

PHP5 myclass.php

Everything worked correctly. However, the code I posted originally produced another error. The

public var $variable 

line, which was a solution to another Stack Overflow post didn’t work. I replaced it with

public $variable

and was able to test succesfully with that change.

This link helped out a lot
http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/index.php?/topic/4319-error-on-yiibase-php-on-line-55/