PHP expects T PAAMAYIM NEKUDOTAYIM

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Does anyone have a T PAAMAYIM NEKUDOTAYIM

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It s Hebrew for  quot double colon quot

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For me this happened within a class function    In PHP 5 3 and above  this   defaults worked fine  when I swapped the code into a server that for whatever reason had a lower version number it threw this error   The solution  in my case  was to use the keyword self instead of  this   self   defaults works just fine

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From Wikipedia      In PHP  the scope resolution operator is also called Paamayim   Nekudotayim  Hebrew                     which means    double colon    in   Hebrew       The name  Paamayim Nekudotayim  was introduced in the   Israeli-developed Zend Engine 0 5 used in PHP 3  Although it has been   confusing to many developers who do not speak Hebrew  it is still   being used in PHP 5  as in this sample error message         php -r    Parse error  syntax error  unexpected   T PAAMAYIM NEKUDOTAYIM      As of PHP 5 4  error messages concerning the scope resolution operator   still include this name  but have clarified its meaning somewhat         php -r    Parse error  syntax error  unexpected         T PAAMAYIM NEKUDOTAYIM    From the official PHP documentation      The Scope Resolution Operator  also called Paamayim Nekudotayim  or in   simpler terms  the double colon  is a token that allows access to   static  constant  and overridden properties or methods of a class       When referencing these items from outside the class definition  use   the name of the class       As of PHP 5 3 0  it s possible to reference the class using a   variable  The variable s value can not be a keyword  e g  self  parent   and static        Paamayim Nekudotayim would  at first  seem like a strange choice for   naming a double-colon  However  while writing the Zend Engine 0 5    which powers PHP 3   that s what the Zend team decided to call it  It   actually does mean double-colon - in Hebrew

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This can happen on foreachs when using   foreach   array as  key    value     instead of  foreach   array as  key   gt   value

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Edit  Unfortunately  as of PHP 8 0  the answer is not  quot No  not anymore quot   This RFC was not accepted as I hoped  proposing to change T PAAMAYIM NEKUDOTAYIM to T DOUBLE COLON  but it was declined  Note  I keep this answer for historical purposes  Actually  because of the creation of the RFC and the votes ratio at some point  I created this answer  Also  I keep this for hoping it to be accepted in the near future

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This is also coming when you apply a constant in PHP to the empty   function   if   empty SOME CONSTANT          That was my case  I solved it by using this    string   SOME CONSTANT  if   empty  string

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I know Hebrew pretty well  so to clarify the name  quot Paamayim Nekudotayim quot  for you  the paraphrased meaning is  quot double colon quot   but translated literally    quot Paamayim quot  means  quot two quot  or  quot twice quot   quot Nekudotayim quot  means  quot dots quot   lit   quot holes quot    In the Hebrew language  a nekuda means a dot  The plural is nekudot  i e  dots that act like vowels do in english  The reason it why it s called Nekudo-tayim is because the suffix  quot -ayim quot  also means  quot two quot  or  quot twice quot   thus    denotes  quot two times  two dots quot   or more commonly known as the Scope Resolution Operator

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It   s a name for the    operator in PHP  It literally means  double colon   For some reason they named it in Hebrew  Check your code syntax  and put a    where appropriate  -

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This just happened to me in a foreach loop  I had inadvertently typed   array as  key as  value  and PHP objected to the first as

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It   s the double colon operator     see list of parser tokens

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This just happened to me in a string assignment using double quotes   I was missing a closing curly on a POST variable     quot for    POST  txtName   on  date quot   should have been  quot for    POST  txtName    on  date quot   I can t explain why   I mean  I see the error that would break the code but I don t see why it references a class error

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