[RESOLVED] PHP version: 5.2.17 problems?

[cluelessPHP]

I'm running this code, not sure if it's a version error or just bad coding

				<?php
	require_once "query.php";
$page = isset($_GET['page']) ? (int)$_GET['page'] : 1;	
$perPage = isset($_GET['per-page']) && $_GET['per-page'] <= 50 ? (int)$_GET['per-page'] : 3;

$start = ($page > 1) ? ($page * $perPage) - $perPage : 0;

		$minutes = $db->prepare("
			SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS id, title, minutes, date
			from minutes 
			ORDER BY id DESC
			LIMIT {$start}, {$perPage}
		");
$minutes->execute();
$minutes = $minutes->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);

$total = $db->query("SELECT FOUND_ROWS() as total")->fetch()['total'];
$pages = ceil($total / $perPage);

?>

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '[' 

[NogDog]

You can't do this until PHP 5.4.x, when "array dereferencing" was added:

$total = $db->query("SELECT FOUND_ROWS() as total")->fetch()['total'];

Instead you'll have to do something like this (or upgrade to a newer PHP version):

$total = $db->query("SELECT FOUND_ROWS() as total")->fetch();
$total = $total['total'];

[cluelessPHP]

Ahh thanks, it was mostly a curiosity, I'm testing something on a free server it threw me that error, I'm clueless with PHP older than 5.*