[PHP-DOC] Bug #13780 Updated: At least missleading errormessage and possible a bug. From: goba <email protected>
Date: 10/22/01

ID: 13780
Updated by: goba
Reported By: Draugsi <email protected>
Status: Open
Bug Type: Documentation problem
Operating System:
PHP Version: 4.0.6
New Comment:

This IS in the docuemtation, and clearly explained.
See: http://www.php.net/variables

Quote:

| Variable names follow the same rules as other
| labels in PHP. A valid variable name starts
| with a letter or underscore, followed by any
| number of letters, numbers, or underscores.

>From the examples list on the same page:

| $4site = 'not yet'; // invalid; starts with a number

There is nothing more we can do about this IMHO.

Previous Comments:
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[2001-10-21 13:48:57] derick <email protected>

This is not a bug, but should be in the manual. Changing category.

Derick

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[2001-10-21 13:32:07] Draugsi <email protected>

This error message is reported on your page :

Parse error: parse error, expecting `T_VARIABLE' or `'$'' in ************** on line ***

At first i thougt this was because i was "making" a 2 dimentional array or because i was doing somthing wrong in the query to MySQL but i found out the hard way that this was not the case. To reproduce this error is pretty easy, the only ting you have to do is this :

<?php
$2dAnim="All your base are belong to us.";
?>
... just this will trigger it, to fix this error just do :

<?php
$TwoDAnim="All your base are belong to us.";
?>

Apparently if you have a digit as the first char in a variable you will get this error message.

It would of been nice if i could have found some information about this, but instead i sat for "two" days trying to figure out how i screewd up the Multidimensional array or the Query.

Regards,
  Draugsi.

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