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PHP

Posted by Brian van Vlymen
Brian van Vlymen
12,637 Points

oophp not working on xamp weird?

I want to experiment myself very first time following the video on OOPHP basic that was stage 2 related to method and properties. I was copying from their code into my file and i would like to check it out with my XAMP.

I turned on XAMP engine. I went to http://localhost/oop.php and got out of the blue.
It was error it said " Notice: Use of undefined constant ‘default_name’ - assumed '‘default_name’' in C:\xampp\htdocs\oop.php on line 13 Product Name: ‘default_name’"

I have noticed their URL were hampton.dev/ not using the localhost. hmm?

I do not know what does it mean?

The code is 

<?php
class Product
{
    // properties
    public $name = ‘default_name’;

    //methods
    public function getInfo (){
        return "Product Name: ". $this->name;
    }
}

$p = new Product();
echo $p->getInfo(); 
?>

2 Answers

Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points
Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points

Hi Brian,

The problem is the fancy quotes in your code, currently you have the following.

public $name = ‘default_name’;

Instead it should be the following and it should work, as a reminder PHP requires correctly formatted single and double quotes as the parsing engine can't compile fancy quotes.

public $name = 'default_name';
Brian van Vlymen
Brian van Vlymen
12,637 Points
Brian van Vlymen
Brian van Vlymen
12,637 Points

wow you have an eagle eye! you are lucking caught the fish!