Syntax Issue

[PHannum]

I'm having trouble understanding this syntax error: 

 

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/students/phannum/public_html/n413/ooplr/classes/Cookie.php on line 19

 

Here it is in my code, highlighted and bolded:

 

<?php

class Cookie {

public static function exists($name) {

return (issest($_COOKIE[$name])) ? true : false;

}

 

public static function get($name) {

return $_COOKIE[$name];

}

 

public static function put($name, $value, $expiry) {

if(setcookie($name, $value, time() + $expiry, '/')) {

return true;

}

return false;

}

 

public static function delete($name){

self::put($name, ',' time() - 1);

}

}

 

Anything to help would be awesome!

[Jacques1]

What's that lonely comma string doing there? Is it a separate method argument? Then you need a comma after it. Is it supposed to belong to the time? Then you need string concatenation.

 

But you can't just put it there with no context.

[bsmither]

Here is your argument list:

put($name, $value, $expiry)

 

And this is your call:

put($name, ',' time() - 1)

 

Methinks the second argument, for $value, perhaps being an empty string, has the comma in the wrong place.

[PHannum]

Please elaborate?

[Jacques1]

Take a close look at the erroneous line. You have a variable, then a comma, then a string with a comma in it and immediately after this a number. This is not valid PHP syntax.

 

As bsmither already pointed out, you probably wanted an empty string followed by a comma rather than a string with a comma in it.

 

That is, you want

 

'',

 

rather than

 

','

 

See the difference?

Edited April 24, 2014 by Jacques1

[gizmola]

Hi PHannum,

In the future, just use the code bbtag around your code blocks. Easier for everyone.

 

Hopefully between bsmither and jacques1, you can see that you need three params to your self::put() method call and you have only supplied 2, it appears by accident.