Posted by Jon M. on 05/05/05 13:05

OK, thanks everyone.



My question has been thoroughly answered, and I completely understand now.



I did try the "var $varName;" outside a class, just to see what happened,
and found out it does indeed throw a parse error, so I'll just use a comment
as suggested. I wonder why "Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL from Novice to
Professional by W. Jason Gilmore" says to declare them? I guess he just
meant by assigning a value like: $varName = "Null" or something. I just have
to get used to this new way of "declaring" -lol.



-Jon



"Rasmus Lerdorf" <rasmus@lerdorf.com> wrote in message
news:4279B831.70301@lerdorf.com...
> Jon M. wrote:
>> So, are you saying that it is absolutely "PHP-illegal" to do:
>
> Yes, it is illegal. Inside a class definition you can define properties
> like this, but for regular variables it is simply not supported. And it
> makes no sense. If you can't stop your hands from typing this stuff, do
> this:
>
> #var $varName;
>
> -Rasmus

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