[PHP] Initializing class properties

[Lance Lovette]

Before PHP 4 I could initialize class properties that were objects like
this:

class A
{
};

class B
{
var $x = new A;
};

PHP 4 gives me a parse error when trying to initialize $x. Is there a way to
make PHP 4 work like it used to or must I move all object property
initializations to the class constructor?

Lance

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[Daniel Convissor]

Hi Lance:

> class B
> {
> var $x = new A;
> };
>
> PHP 4 gives me a parse error when trying to initialize $x. Is there a way to
> make PHP 4 work like it used to or must I move all object property
> initializations to the class constructor?

Yep, you'll have to do it in a constructor. Var's can only be set to strings
or numbers. Setting it using a variable, function, math, etc are not legal.

When I ran into this after converting from 3 to 4 it took me a LOOOOOONG time
of hacking to track it down.

Enjoy,

--Dan

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