What is unexpected T VARIABLE in PHP

Question

I get this PHP error      Parse error  syntax error  unexpected   T VARIABLE   From this line    list  i   docinfo  attrs     groupby       docinfo  attrs     count      Is there anything wrong with this line

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In my case it was an issue of the PHP version   The  phar file I was using was not compatible with PHP 5 3 9  Switching interpreter to PHP 7 did fix it

User · Answer

It could be some other line as well  PHP is not always that exact   Probably you are just missing a semicolon on previous line   How to reproduce this error  put this in a file called a php    lt  php    a   5    b   7            Error happens here    print  b    gt    Run it   eric dev     php a php  PHP Parse error   syntax error  unexpected T VARIABLE in  home el code a php on line 3   Explanation   The PHP parser converts your program to a series of tokens   A T VARIABLE is a Token of type VARIABLE   When the parser processes tokens  it tries to make sense of them  and throws errors if it receives a variable where none is allowed   In the simple case above with variable  b  the parser tried to process this    a   5  b   7    The PHP parser looks at the  b after the 5 and says  that is unexpected

User · Answer

There might be a semicolon or bracket missing a line before your pasted line   It seems fine to me  every string is allowed as an array index

[php] What is unexpected T_VARIABLE in PHP?

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