syntax error, unexpected 'private' (T_PRIVATE), expecting variable (T_VARIABLE)

[sanbroz]

http localhost/products

HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
Connection: close
Content-Length: 157
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2022 06:20:47 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.53 (Win64) OpenSSL/1.1.1n PHP/7.4.29
X-Powered-By: PHP/7.4.29

{
"code": 0,
"file": "C:\xampp\htdocs\src\Database.php",
"line": 5,
"message": "syntax error, unexpected 'private' (T_PRIVATE), expecting variable (T_VARIABLE)"
}

[daveh]

This looks like a PHP version issue - if you're on a version prior to PHP8, you can't use constructor property promotion (adding visibility modifiers in the constructor arguments)

[corelus]

Hi @daveh, great tutorial & nice work! thanks for sharing!
But could you please provide the environment requirements such as which PDO drivers are needed to get the project works. I started with this tutorial on youtube & wanted to continue the full course with Authentication & so on on Udemy, but I am kind of stuck at this point, because contrary to you in your the main tuto I'm not using MAMP, I am using docker and I'm running PHP 8 with MariaDB 10.9.3 & I've PDO Sqlite with its library SQLite Library | 3.34.1 running & I got the message -> could not find driver","file":"/var/www/html/src/Database.php","line":16

[daveh]

@corelus I'm actually using XAMPP, but the results should be the same. To use PDO with MariaDB you need to install the PHP MySQL package - on Linux this would be

sudo apt-get install php-mysql

for example