Unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM in PHP 5.2.x

Question

I\'m having a hard time understanding why I\'m getting an Unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM error in the following code, which seems perfecly valid to me...

Answer 1

The reason for the error is simply that the syntax isn't supported in < 5.3.

However, if you're trying to just access the static variable $id, then the syntax would be:

$result::id

If you do need to access a static variable variable, then a workaround is to use reflection:

$class = new ReflectionClass($xpto);
echo $class->setStaticPropertyValue ('id', strval($xpto));

ReflectionClass