Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'const' (T_CONST), expecting variable (T_VARIABLE) in Laravel project - CPanel

ArafatRahman
July 28, 2018
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I have got the following error in my Laravel project after uploading in Bluehost cPanel. But in local server there is no error.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘const’ (T_CONST), expecting variable (T_VARIABLE)

Here is the code

<?php
namespace DoctrineDBAL;
use DoctrineDBALDriverServerInfoAwareConnection;
use DoctrineDBALExceptionInvalidArgumentException;
use Closure;
use Exception;
use DoctrineDBALTypesType;
use DoctrineDBALDriverConnection as DriverConnection;
use DoctrineCommonEventManager;
use DoctrineDBALCacheResultCacheStatement;
use DoctrineDBALCacheQueryCacheProfile;
use DoctrineDBALCacheArrayStatement;
use DoctrineDBALCacheCacheException;
use DoctrineDBALDriverPingableConnection;
use Throwable;
use function array_key_exists;
use function array_merge;
use function func_get_args;
use function implode;
use function is_int;
use function is_string;
use function key;
class Connection implements DriverConnection
{

public const TRANSACTION_READ_UNCOMMITTED = TransactionIsolationLevel::READ_UNCOMMITTED;

public const TRANSACTION_READ_COMMITTED = TransactionIsolationLevel::READ_COMMITTED;

public const TRANSACTION_REPEATABLE_READ = TransactionIsolationLevel::REPEATABLE_READ;

public const TRANSACTION_SERIALIZABLE = TransactionIsolationLevel::SERIALIZABLE;

public const PARAM_INT_ARRAY = ParameterType::INTEGER + self::ARRAY_PARAM_OFFSET;

public const PARAM_STR_ARRAY = ParameterType::STRING + self::ARRAY_PARAM_OFFSET;

const ARRAY_PARAM_OFFSET = 100;

protected $_conn;

protected $_config;

protected $_eventManager;

protected $_expr;

private $_isConnected = false;

private $autoCommit = true;

private $_transactionNestingLevel = 0;

private $_transactionIsolationLevel;

private $_nestTransactionsWithSavepoints = false;

private $_params = [];

private $platform;

protected $_schemaManager;

protected $_driver;

private $_isRollbackOnly = false;

protected $defaultFetchMode = FetchMode::ASSOCIATIVE;

My local server PHP version is 7.2.0

Bluehost PHP version is 7.0.0

Is that PHP version related problem?

How to fix this?

Answers

- NigelRen
- July 28, 2018 at 7:59 am
- 0 votes
0
The ability to specify the visibility of class constants was only added in PHP 7.1, from the manual page

Note:

As of PHP 7.1.0 visibility modifiers are allowed for class constants.

So on the PHP 7.0 server, the
```
public const TRANSACTION_READ_UNCOMMITTED ...
```
lines should not have the public on them. It also says that

The default visibility of class constants is public.

So public is not needed anyway.
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- Nam
- May 21, 2020 at 11:13 am
- 0 votes
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It seems like you want to define a constant variable.

My instruction was :
```
const CONSTANT = 'jkl';
```
The error I got :

syntax error, unexpected ‘const’ (T_CONST) in …

I changed that instruction to :
```
define('CONSTANT', 'jkl');
echo CONSTANT;
```
output :
```
jkl
```
Syntax of the method ‘define’ :
```
define('variable_name', 'value_of_the_variable', [case-insensitive_constant_name = true/false]);
```
For eg.
```
define('CONSTANT3', 'ghi', true);
echo CONSTANT3;
define('constant3', 'ghi'); //Defining 'constant3' again will give an error.
```
But
```
define('CONSTANT3', 'ghi');
echo CONSTANT3;
define('constant3', 'ghi'); //This won't give an error.
echo constant3;
```
Always remember that regular variables should be addressed by using ‘$’ before their name but constant variables should be addressed directly as shown by me in the code above.
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