Me again! I am trying to create a currency converter function for my
eCommerce that still pet treats. I am a little short on money recently
and so cannot afford a programmer. Can somebody tell me why my script
tells me that I have a syntax error on the "CONST" line. I am trying
to follow the article below.

Article: http://www.talkphp.com/showthread.php?t=1503

The error I get is:

Parse error: parse error, expecting `T_OLD_FUNCTION' or
`T_FUNCTION'...

My server is CentOS 4 or 5, I forget which, running PHP 4.1.0 with
MySQL 5, I think. The line that it shows me the error on is:

const OPT_FILE = 'talkphp_conversion_rates.json';

Please ! Also, somebody mentioned something about cross-posting on
newsgroups so that I can post to more than 1 group in case I do not
get a good answer in 1. Could somebody tell me how to do this with
Google Groups please!!

Thannk you.

adam.timberlake@gmail.com wrote:
> Me again! I am trying to create a currency converter function for my
> eCommerce that still pet treats. I am a little short on money recently
> and so cannot afford a programmer. Can somebody tell me why my script
> tells me that I have a syntax error on the "CONST" line. I am trying
> to follow the article below.
>
> Article: http://www.talkphp.com/showthread.php?t=1503
>
> The error I get is:
>
> Parse error: parse error, expecting `T_OLD_FUNCTION' or
> `T_FUNCTION'...
>
> My server is CentOS 4 or 5, I forget which, running PHP 4.1.0 with
> MySQL 5, I think. The line that it shows me the error on is:
>
> const OPT_FILE = 'talkphp_conversion_rates.json';
>

'const' is not a valid PHP keyword. Maybe you want:

define('OPT_FILE', 'talkphp_conversation_rates.json');

But not having the rest of your code, it's hard to tell.


> Please ! Also, somebody mentioned something about cross-posting on
> newsgroups so that I can post to more than 1 group in case I do not
> get a good answer in 1. Could somebody tell me how to do this with
> Google Groups please!!
>

I have no idea how to do it through GG - get yourself a real newsreader.
Your ISP most probably has access to usenet. It's much better.

> Thannk you.
>


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adam.timberlake@gmail.com wrote:

> My server is CentOS 4 or 5, I forget which,

cat /etc/issue
That should tell you a bit about which version you are using


> running PHP 4.1.0 with
> MySQL 5, I think. The line that it shows me the error on is:

This makes me believe it's NOT CentOS5.


> const OPT_FILE = 'talkphp_conversion_rates.json';
> Parse error: parse error, expecting `T_OLD_FUNCTION' or
> `T_FUNCTION'...

const can only be used in a class, so

<?PHP
const OPT_FILE = 'talkphp_conversion_rates.json';
?>

will genereate your error message

<?PHP
class something {
const OPT_FILE = 'talkphp_conversion_rates.json';
}
?>

This would be ok.

If you want to use a "constatn" outside a class, you have to use define as
Jerry suggested.


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