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[Daniel Convissor]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 10:13:54AM -0500, Chris Bielanski wrote:

> it never occured to me before but I note that it *appears* that the 'var'
> keyword is only allowed in classes in PHP 4. AFAIK, using it in a PHP4
> function is verboten.

Correct.  It's used in Object Oriented Programming.  Var defines 
properties' default values.  Note that they need to be defined outside of 
methods (nb: in classes, functions are called methods).   Example:

class foo {
    var $x = 'y';
    function bar() {
    }
}

var is deprecated in PHP 5, raising a new E_STRICT warning.  Instead of 
using var, use public, private, protected, etc.

--Dan

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