OK, thanks everyone. My question has been thoroughly answered, and I completely understand now. I did try the "var $varName;" outside a class, just to see what happened, and found out it does indeed throw a parse error, so I'll just use a comment as suggested. I wonder why "Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL from Novice to Professional by W. Jason Gilmore" says to declare them? I guess he just meant by assigning a value like: $varName = "Null" or something. I just have to get used to this new way of "declaring" -lol. -Jon "Rasmus Lerdorf" <rasmus@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:4279B831.70301@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Jon M. wrote: >> So, are you saying that it is absolutely "PHP-illegal" to do: > > Yes, it is illegal. Inside a class definition you can define properties > like this, but for regular variables it is simply not supported. And it > makes no sense. If you can't stop your hands from typing this stuff, do > this: > > #var $varName; > > -Rasmus -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
