PHP4 and the use of "->"

[troublemaker]

Got a PHP 4 server, RH8, Apache 2,

I have been experiencing problems with an assignment operator. The following code..
/
$GALERIA = new SmartGallery();
$GALERIA->setTemplateFile("example.tpl");
$GALERIA->setTextCss("destacado_azul");
/

fails and produces the following output as a text string; (the / and / are for our benefit in this posting)
/
setTemplateFile("example.tpl"); $GALERIA->setTextCss("destacado_azul");
/

Looks like the assignment that occurs at "$GALERIA->setTemplateFile" is being treated as a text string right after the "->".

Any ideas? I have run into this with another coding effort...

[erikwebb]

The '->' is only an operator. It has no real actions associated with it. There must be something wrong with that function, or maybe your code directly around it.

[troublemaker]

I have been up and down the php.ini file trying to determine if I have inadvertantly defined "->" or "-" or ">" as a text delimiter, without success.....

At this point I have seen a few more cases of code puking test strings and I am stumped!

I have been through a few newsgroups, so far without success...