FatalErrorException in RouteServiceProvider.php line 7

[simondahla]

Getting this error message when trying to run the application:

FatalErrorException in RouteServiceProvider.php line 7:
syntax error, unexpected '{', expecting identifier (T_STRING)

The line it's referring to is: use App\Models\{User, Space, Wiki, Team, Page, Role};

[ziishaned]

@simondahla what is the php version do you have? This application does't work until you have the version of php 7.0 or after release.

[simondahla]

@ZeeSHANU

vagrant@scotchbox:/var/www/opus.local$ php -v
PHP 7.0.17-2+deb.sury.org~trusty+1 (cli) (built: Mar 15 2017 09:38:47) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2017 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.0.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2017 Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v7.0.17-2+deb.sury.org~trusty+1, Copyright (c) 1999-2017, by Zend Technologies

I tried to rewrite that line to

use App\Models\User;
use App\Models\Space;
use App\Models\Wiki;
use App\Models\Team;
use App\Models\Page;
use App\Models\Role;

It seems to fix the problem, but the that kind of error is then found in Wiki.php and probably all other files with that syntax...

[simondahla]

Also tried to upgrade to PHP 7.1 but without success.

vagrant@scotchbox:/var/www/opus.local$ php -v
PHP 7.1.3-2+deb.sury.org~trusty+1 (cli) (built: Mar 15 2017 09:53:03) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2017 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.1.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2017 Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v7.1.3-2+deb.sury.org~trusty+1, Copyright (c) 1999-2017, by Zend Technologies

[ziishaned]

@simondahla This is strange because I have PHP 7.0.9 and everything is working fine. As you can see in PHP documentation we can group use statements like this:

// PHP 7+ code
use some\namespace\{ClassA, ClassB, ClassC as C};
use function some\namespace\{fn_a, fn_b, fn_c};
use const some\namespace\{ConstA, ConstB, ConstC};

[sandeepscet]

Solved after PHP 7 installation.

[simondahla]

@ZeeSHANU I hear you. As you can see I'm using PHP 7.1.3 and it's still not working.

Any other suggestions on how to solve this?

[ziishaned]

@simondahla To solve your issue just explode the grouped use statements like this

use {ClassA, ClassB};

with

use ClassA;
use ClassB;