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PHP call class in class returns error:500

I have code that looks somewhat like this:

<?php
include 'payTable.php';
session_start(); 

...

if ($_SESSION['fieldTen'] > 30)
{
    $payTable = 'payTable';
    $payTable::run();
}

?>

My permissions are set to 0644, so I don’t think that’s the issue, but I’m getting strange behavior on the server that I’m not getting in the local directory using XAMP.

Every time I try to load the page with this code on it, I get the “Internal Server Error: 500” error.

Can anyone tell me if there’s something obviously wrong here? Something I’m missing.

I tried simply removing the PHP from this file and that causes the HTML part of it to appear without problems.

Answer 1

This is not legal syntax on PHP < 5.3.0, so you’re getting a syntax error:

$payTable = 'payTable';
$payTable::run();

PHP (< 5.3.0) thinks $payTable is a string, so you can’t use ::run() on it.

The solution would be just to ditch the variable altogether and call it directly:

payTable::run();

On a related note, turn on your error reporting. This will allow you to spot and fix errors easily rather than being left in the dark with a generic error. You can do this by editing php.ini (preferred), or add this to the top of your scripts:

error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set("display_errors","On");