Well, I'm transferring a little web server from one computer to other, on the 'other' computer I cannot a more updated version of PHP,
I just have to add my files through ssh and that's all, when I load my webpage it says explicitly:
The error is showing on a Debian with PHP 5.4.27 squeeze, the webserver comes from an Ubuntu with PHP 5.4.16 oneiric
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '[' in ~directory~ on line 38
This is the line 38.
$VALUE=$DB->query("a nice sentence")->fetch()[0];
So, i was pretty surprised because PDO was accepted since PHP 5.1, so, i look deeper and i found the possible error, you can't simply do ->fetch()[0], you must separate it in order to be "processed",
However, I have transport this server with this information before, so i really don't know if it's something on the configuration of PHP or maybe the version by itself 5.4.X? You guys know any hint? As I said, i can't just install other updated version of PHP5, what do you recommend?
Have a nice night.
Edit: updated to the issue on the PHP 5.4 now
Apparently, the error was solved by JUST changing the first issue line (the other hundreds of codes that had that wasn't necessary to change, what i believe to be a little weird).
$VALUE = $DB->query("a nice sentence")->fetch()->offset(0);
The error seems triggered by the array dereferencing. This was added in PHP 5.4.. Not sure how you made that work in 5.3.6
http://nl3.php.net/language.types.array.php
To workaround you could try
$VALUE = $DB->query("a nice sentence")->fetch();
echo $VALUE[0];
PHP Version on my ubuntu (where it works):
PHP Version 5.4.16
PHP Version on the Debian (where it does not work):
PHP Version 5.4.27-1~dotdeb.0
This version number was extracted by using phpinfo(); on the index page.