php – What can cause this syntax error, unexpected '$name' (T_VARIABLE), expecting ',' or ';'?

Question:

class Productos{

    var $nombre;

    public function mostrarNombre(){
        echo '<h3 class="product-name"><a href="#"><?= '$nombre' ?></a </h3>';
    }
}

It tells me that the error in my code is:

syntax error, unexpected '$name' (T_VARIABLE), expecting ',' or ';'

But I do not understand why?.

Answer:

The error is because you are not correctly concatenating the $nombre variable.

Solution:

You must use the dot ( . ) to concatenate.

echo '<h3 class="product-name"><a href="#">' . $nombre . '</a></h3>';

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Classes and objects:

Once you solve the concatenation problem, you will run into another problem, and that is that you are not correctly referencing the $nombre property of the Producto class.

Also ( as @Learner points out ) it is not correct to use var $nombre to define a property.

Solution:

• Class properties must be defined as 'public', 'private' or 'protected' .

• To access the properties of the class, you must use $this

Example:

class Productos{

    public $nombre = 'Nombre';

    public function mostrarNombre(){
        echo '<h3 class="product-name"><a href="#">' . $this->nombre . '</a></h3>';
   }
}