What does this mean? “Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM”

Question

T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM sounds really exotic, but most certainly absolutely nonsense to me. I traced it all down to this lines of code:

Answer 1

According to wikipedia, it means a "double colon" scope resolution operator.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope_resolution_operator