Question

Please could someone tell me why mktime is giving an error inside a class??

<?php

$time_Stamp = mktime(6,30,0);

echo strftime("%H:%M",$time_Stamp);

?>

reports 6:30

<?php

    class Test_Time{

        private $time_Stamp = mktime(6,30,0);

    }

    ?>

reports Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘(‘, expecting ‘,’ or ‘;’ in C:\Program Files (x86)\Ampps\www\sandbox\general\mktime.php on line 5

Answer 1

According to the PHP docs, one can initialize properties in classes
with the following restriction:

“This declaration may include an initialization, but this
initialization must be a constant value–that is, it must be able to
be evaluated at compile time and must not depend on run-time
information in order to be evaluated.”

Try this

<?php

class Test_Time{

    private $time_Stamp; 
   function __construct()
   {
        $this->time_Stamp = mktime(6,30,0);

         echo strftime("%H:%M",$this->time_Stamp);
   }
}
?>