T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM PHP error

Submitted by CoolGoose on

Ok so i've hit this nasty php error T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM that sounded like a language from another planet for me (found out that it's Hebrew for "missing double dots")

The problem is that with static class functions you can't do dynamic loading (or at least it didn't work for me)
So while this

  1. $module = $_GET['module']
  2. $stuff = new $module();
  3. $stuff->data;

works, you can't do
$module::data()
even if the name of the module is the name of the class.

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Hi! I got

Submitted by Code Monkey (not verified) on

Hi!
I got T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM error by typing _$REQUEST instead of the correct name! Check your spelling :-)

With PHP 5.3 this is solved,

Submitted by Code Monkey (not verified) on

With PHP 5.3 this is solved, and you can do "dynamic" static calls like in

$var = $classname::$functionname();

Workaround before PHP 5.3 would be eval('$var = '.$classname.'::'.$functionname.'();');

I'm currenly using PHP 5.3.5

Submitted by Code Monkey (not verified) on

I'm currenly using PHP 5.3.5 and I have just got the same meaningless error. It might have been resolved in some aspects but it still lives.
As far as I understand, this error is shown when internal error-checking mechanizm cant decide on the error because I had the same error many times in many diifferent situations. The last occurence was on an recursive data access to orginize arrays dynamicly. I am not sure if it is really a problem.
I had it in a code like this

$x['a']['a'] = "a";
$x['a']['b'] = "b";
$x['a']['c'] = "c";

$x['b']['a'] = "d";
$x['b']['b'] = "e";
$x['b']['c'] = "f";
......
$a = &$x['a]; // to access without copying
$a works fine, but when I tried to add an element to point to another element in $x, but not in $x['a'], T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM happened

eg;
$a['b'] = &$x['b']['b'];

T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM

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