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Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 21:56:10 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Assign return value of function to property or replace
 parse error with nice fatal error
From: nikita.ppv@gmail.com (Nikita Popov)

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On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 9:39 PM, Khawer . <khaweronline@gmail.com> wrote:

> It would be better if we can assign return value of function to property.
>
> If not at least we should generate a nice error message.
>
> Currently when we try to assign return value of function to property we get
> the following error:
> Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '(', expecting ',' or ';' in
> index.php on line 4
>
> We should replace this error with the following error:
> Fatal error: You must assign a static value to property in index.php on
> line 4.
> OR
> Fatal error: Dynamic values cannot be assigned to property in index.php on
> line 4.
>

Since PHP 7 the error message is:

    Fatal error: Constant expression contains invalid operations

Nikita

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