Rochak Chauhan::Unpredictably Exciting

Are you facing an error that says:

Parse error: parse error, expecting `T_OLD_FUNCTION’ or `T_FUNCTION’ or `T_VAR’ or `’}” in ….

Well chances are that you are trying to run a Class written for PHP5 in PHP 4. This is what you have to do in order to make a class written in PHP5 Class to work in PHP4 or for that matter in PHP 3.

1. Remove all PUBLIC, PRIVATE and PROTECTED keywords.
2. Prefix “var” keyword before each variable declared in the class.
3. Rename the constructor of the class (of any) from __construct() to NameOfTheClass()
4. Look for PHP 5 specific functions like simplexml_load_string() and replace/recode them with PHP4 equivalent code.

For Example:

In PHP 5

class  dummy() {

private $variable;

public function __constructor(){

//Contructor function....

}

public function getValue() {

..........

In PHP4

class  dummy() {

var $variable;

function dummy(){

//Contructor function....

}

function getValue() {

..........