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steveo225
steveo225

Reputation: 11882

Syntax error in PHP after upgrading to 5.4

I am getting the following error ever since I upgraded from PHP 5.2x or 5.3x (not sure which) to 5.4x:

syntax error, unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM, expecting T_VARIABLE

The following is the code that generates the error. Essentially I have a class to create SVG image with a static draw() method defined in a derived class and a static helper function drawPng() on the base class that converts the SVG to PNG using Imagick. The error is at the marked line.

static function drawPng($filename, $data, &$options=array()) {
    ob_start();
    static::draw($data, $options); // <-- Error occurs
    $svg = ob_get_clean();

    $im = new Imagick();
    if(!$im) die('Imagick not installed');
    $bg = (empty($options['background']) ? 'transparent' : $options['background']);
    $im->setBackgroundColor(new ImagickPixel($bg));
    $im->readImageBlob($svg);
    $im->setImageFormat('png');
    if($filename) $im->writeImage($filename);
    else echo $im->getImageBlob();
}

The code as shown above has worked until the upgrade. Thanks for the assistance.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 217

Answers (2)

astax
astax

Reputation: 1767

I think you messed up the PHP versions and actually starting this code on PHP 5.2. This error would happen in PHP 5.2 because there is no static:: access. Also the error message with T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM in PHP 5.4 would mention "::", while yours doesn't, which is another hint that you're running wrong version of PHP.

To verify add echo phpversion(); exit(); to the top of this method.

Upvotes: 0

Andrei
Andrei

Reputation: 3588

T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM is the hebrew name (for some reason - Zend was started by Israelis folk, as ceejayoz pointed out. ) for the double colon, aka ::

Change static to self:

static::draw($data, $options);

self::draw($data, $options);

Upvotes: 3

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