#38098 [NEW]: String concatenation

From: wiart at yahoo dot com Operating system: Linux (Fedora core 4) - AMD64 PHP version: 5.1.4 PHP Bug Type: Unknown/Other Function Bug description: String concatenation Description: ------------ reproduced with PHP 5.1.2 (sorry, no time to test with 5.1.4). Impossible to concatenate strings in a class member declaration, it generates a PHP "Parse error". Very annoying when, for example, one want to create a member string which is a concatenation of a text and a constant Reproduce code: --------------- <?php class MyClass { public $myString = 'test1'.'test2'; } $myClass = new MyClass(); echo "Result is: ".$myClass->myString; ?> Expected result: ---------------- Result is: test1test2 Actual result: -------------- Parse error: parse error, unexpected '.', expecting ')' in /home/wiart/genomequest/apache/web/GQ/lib/comparisonNew/HTMLlaunchform.php on line 5 -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=38098&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38098&r=trysnapshot44 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38098&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38098&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38098&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38098&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38098&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38098&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38098&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38098&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38098&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38098&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38098&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38098&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38098&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38098&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38098&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38098&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38098&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38098&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38098&r=mysqlcfg