What does this mean Parse error syntax error unexpected T PAAMAYIM NEKUDOTAYIM

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T PAAMAYIM NEKUDOTAYIM sounds really exotic  but most certainly absolutely nonsense to me  I traced it all down to this lines of code    lt  php Class Context       protected  config       public function getConfig  key       Here s the problem somewhere         cnf    this- gt config      return  cnf  getConfig  key              function   construct          this- gt config   new Config              gt    In the constructor I create a Config object  Here s the class   final class Config       private static  instance   NULL      private static  config       public static function getConfig  key        return self   config  key              public static function getInstance         if   self   instance            self   instance   new Config              return self   instance             private function   construct            include configuration file     include   ROOT INCLUDE PATH     sys config config php      defines a  config array      this- gt config    config            No idea why this doesnt work   what the error means

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It s the name for the    operator  Wikipedia

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For anyone using Laravel  I was having the same error on Laravel 7 0  The error looked like this syntax error  unexpected       T PAAMAYIM NEKUDOTAYIM   expecting     or      It was in my Routes web php file  which looked like this use Illuminate Support Facades Route  use Illuminate Http Request  use    this was an extra   use   statement that gave me the error  Route  get      function          return view  save-online index      - gt name  save-online index

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According to wikipedia  it means a  double colon  scope resolution operator   http   en wikipedia org wiki Scope resolution operator

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The error is down to an  inappropriate use  of the double colon operator   return  cnf  getConfig  key     as by using the    you re attempting to call a static method of the class itself  In your example you want to call a non-static method on an instantiated object   I think what you want is   return  cnf- gt getConfig  key

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In your example  return  cnf  getConfig  key    Probably should be   return  cnf- gt getConfig  key    And make getConfig not static

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T PAAMAYIM NEKUDOTAYIM is the double colon scope resolution thingy PHP uses -     Quick glance at your code  I think this line   return  cnf  getConfig  key     should be  return  cnf- gt getConfig  key     The first is the way to call a method statically - this code would be valid if  cnf contained a string that was also a valid class  The -  syntax is for calling a method on an instance of a class object

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if you still need to use the double-colon then make sure your on PHP 5 3

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Just my two cents for future visitors who have this problem   This is the correct syntax for PHP 5 3  for example if you call static method from the class name   MyClassName  getConfig  key     If you previously assign the ClassName to the  cnf variable  you can call the static method from it  we are talking about PHP 5 3      cnf   MyClassName   cnf  getConfig  key     However  this sintax doesn t work on PHP 5 2 or lower  and you need to use the following    cnf   MyClassName  call user func array  cnf   getConfig    key     otherposibleadditionalparameters          Hope this helps people having this error in 5 2 version  don t know if this was openfrog s version

[php] What does this mean? "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM"

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