Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '.', expecting ',' or ';'

driveman

Hello,
Can anybody tell me why I get:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '.', expecting ',' or ';' in ........../proxy.php on line 14

Line14 is last line, here is my code:

<?php
define('COMMONBOX_API_LG', "fr");
define('COMMONBOX_API_KEY', "demo");
define('COMMONBOX_URL', 'http://sandbox.commonbox.net');
define('COMMONBOX_ADD_ITEM_REDIRECT', 'http://www.commonbox.net');

$sess_id = session_id();
if (empty($sess_id)) { session_start(); }

class CommonboxProxy
{
const URL = COMMONBOX_URL . '/api';

Thanks in advance for your help.

dalecosp

Constants are constant. You can't store anything in them.

You can use a static property though.

class My_Class {
  public static $DB_TABLE;
}
My_Class::$DB_TABLE = TABLE_PREFIX . 'class_table';

You can't do it within the declaration, so you might prefer a static method instead.

class My_Class {
  public static function dbTable() {
    return TABLE_PREFIX . 'class_table';
  }
}

driveman

Thanks for your reply.
I beleive you haven't understood the purpose or the issue.

const URL = COMMONBOX_URL . '/api';

URLs are constants so the issue is somewhere else where the . before '/api' causes problem for php.
Moreover your example is out of context since you are using variables for database.

Thanks anyway but it doesn't solve my problem.

dalecosp

It's quite possible I've missed something, I don't purport to be a genius.

See http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=42355 though. The gods have spoken.

driveman

Your last link php.net... put me in the right way after having searched with other words. I followed the php tutorial:
http://php.net/manual/en/language.operators.string.php

My solved solution in order to use the const function and concat 2 strings is:

const URL = "{COMMONBOX_URL}/api";

Thanks for your help Einstein!