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Bug #29021 Parse error caused by "valid" array/string syntax
Submitted: 2004-07-05 20:12 UTC Modified: 2004-07-06 09:12 UTC
From: johfivealive at hotmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Scripting Engine problem
PHP Version: 5.0.0RC3 OS: Fedora Core 2
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2004-07-05 20:12 UTC] johfivealive at hotmail dot com
Description:
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I think this should not be a parse error, this should work. It seems the concatenation of LOGIK_CONFIG_FILE to the string:

"<span class=\"error\"><strong></strong> couldn't be opened for reading.<br />Check file permissions.</span>" 

is causing the parse error.

Reproduce code:
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define( "LOGIK_DIRECTORY", $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "/" );
define( "LOGIK_CONFIG_DIRECTORY", "config/" );
define( "LOGIK_CONFIG_FILE", LOGIK_DIRECTORY . LOGIK_CONFIG_DIRECTORY . "logikconfig.xml" );
define( "LOGIK_CONFIG_FILE_FOPEN_ERROR", 3 );

static $errors = array(
                     LOGIK_CONFIG_FILE_FOPEN_ERROR => "<span class=\"error\"><strong>" . LOGIK_CONFIG_FILE . "</strong> couldn't be opened for reading.<br />Check file permissions.</span>"
                     );

The above array() creation syntax is what throws the parse error.

Expected result:
----------------
This shouldn't be a parse error because it is valid string concatenation syntax.

Actual result:
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PHP reprts the following error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '.', expecting ')'

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 [2004-07-06 09:12 UTC] derick@php.net
Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not
a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report
a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php

You can only have static array initializations, concatting to a string like you do is not supported.
 
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