unexpected T VARIABLE expecting T FUNCTION

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I am expecting this to be a basic syntax error I overlooked  but I can t figure it out   In a PHP script  I keep getting the following error   Parse error  syntax error  unexpected T VARIABLE  expecting T FUNCTION in  path  scripts users database connection php on line 4   This occurs when my script to connect to the database is called with an include once     I stripped my script down to the most basic code  leaving in what is required by other code   and it still is calling this error    lt  php     class UserDatabaseConnection                connection   sqlite open   path  data users sqlite   0666           public function lookupUser  username                           rest of my code                          udb   new UserDatabaseConnection    gt    I have struggled with this for a while  and just wondered if anyone else could spot somewhere I went wrong

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put public  protected or private before the  connection

User · Answer

Use access modifier before the member definition       private  connection    As you cannot use function call in member definition in PHP  do it in constructor    public function   construct            this- gt connection   sqlite open   path  data users sqlite   0666

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check that you entered a variable as argument with the     symbol

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You cannot use function calls in a class construction  you should initialize that value in the constructor function   From the PHP Manual on class properties      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     A working code sample    lt  php     class UserDatabaseConnection               public  connection          public function   construct                          this- gt connection   sqlite open   path  data users sqlite   0666                     public function lookupUser  username                           rest of my code                   example usage  procedural way                query   sqlite exec  this- gt connection   SELECT        error                  object oriented way               query    this- gt connection- gt queryExec  SELECT        error                         udb   new UserDatabaseConnection    gt    Depending on your needs  protected or private might be a better choice for  connection  That protects you from accidentally closing or messing with the connection

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You can not put    connection   sqlite open   path  data users sqlite   0666    outside the class construction  You have to put that line inside a function or the constructor but you can not place it where you have now

[php] unexpected T_VARIABLE, expecting T_FUNCTION

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