Why does this produce a parse error?

[ppowell]

class InternRequestView extends View {

var $sessionArray = array('Summer ' . date('Y'), 'Fall ' . date('Y'), 'Spring ' . (date('Y') + 1));

}

The following code produces the following parse error:

Parse error: parse error, expecting `')'' in /var/www/html/development/phillip/includes/intern_request_classes.inc.php on line 218

Perhaps not enough coffee, but I honestly don't get it, what's going on?

Thanx
Phil

[eoghain]

Your error might not be on this line itself this might just be where the parser finally broke. You should post more of the code. The error seems to state that you have an open ' and ). My guess is that line 218 is the end of this file.

[ppowell]

Actually, the "var $sessionArray" line is lin 218. The entire file containing the 10 classes is about 450 lines long.

Phil

[ahundiak]

You can only assign constant value using $var. So you cannot call the date function.

Move the assignment to the constructor.

[ppowell]

Thanx, that was it. I'm used to a Java construct:

public final String[] sessionArray = {};

Phil