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Bug #35697 Error while using a defined constant in a concat string
Submitted: 2005-12-16 04:34 UTC Modified: 2005-12-16 05:31 UTC
From: bryan at phpandmore dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Scripting Engine problem
PHP Version: 5.1.1 OS: Red Hat
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2005-12-16 04:34 UTC] bryan at phpandmore dot com 
Description:
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I am defining a constant named SITE_ROOT, and it contains the value "/homepages/29/d113403321/htdocs". When I try to use it in Smarty.class.php, on line 75 or the latest stable version 2.6.11, and I get this parse error. I changed the coding for the class variables so that they would not issue a notice b/c of using var rather than public:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '.', expecting ',' or ';' in /homepages/29/d113403321/htdocs/dev/smarty/Smarty.class.php on line 75


Reproduce code:
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define("SITE_ROOT", '/homepages/29/d113403321/htdocs');
public $template_dir = SITE_ROOT2 . '/dev/smarty/templates';



Expected result:
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$template_dir having a value of /homepages/29/d113403321/htdocs/dev/smarty/templates

Actual result:
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parse error

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 [2005-12-16 04:51 UTC] bryan at phpandmore dot com 
This is used inside a class definition.
 [2005-12-16 04:52 UTC] bryan at phpandmore dot com 
It works when it is used outside of a class definition.
 [2005-12-16 05:31 UTC] iliaa@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

Default values for class properties must be literals.
 
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