Change to function call semantics in PHP 5.1?

Mark Spruiell wrote:

In PHP 5.0.x, I can chain function calls like this:

$obj->method()->anotherMethod();

In PHP 5.1.x, this code results in an error:

parse error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR in ...

I've looked through the change log for 5.1 but didn't see
anything relevant.

Was this an intentional change?

What version did you try? It seems to still work fine with current CVS.

Regards,

Michael - <mike(@)php.net> http://dev.iworks.at/ext-http/http-functions.html.gz

Mark Spruiell skrev:

In PHP 5.0.x, I can chain function calls like this:

$obj->method()->anotherMethod();

In PHP 5.1.x, this code results in an error:

parse error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR in ...

I've looked through the change log for 5.1 but didn't see
anything relevant.

jome@thisbe:~$ php -r 'class a { function b() { return new B; } } class
B { function C() { echo "Works fine."; } } $a = new A; $a->b()->c();'
Works fine.

jome@thisbe:~$ php -v
PHP 5.1.1 (cli) (built: Jan 7 2006 21:44:30)

The error is somewhere in your code.

/j