I’m a complete roockie at this, hoping you can help.

I get the syntax error when i pass the db.php.

{“exception”:0,”message”:”syntax error, unexpected ‘private’ (T_PRIVATE), expecting variable (T_VARIABLE)”,”file”:”/###/db.php”,”line”:8}

My code on that file is this:

class Database
{
    private ?PDO $conn = null;

    public function __construct(
        private string $host,
        private string $name,
        private string $user,
        private string $password
    ) {
    }

    public function getConnection(): ?PDO
    {

I have looked at the tutorial here on stackoverflow: Include, getting “PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘private’ (T_PRIVATE)”

But it’s from 2016 and i didn’t know if it’s still current.

I think it makes sense that I’m passing private, public in one class, not good right?

Can anyone find an example of what i should be doing properly?

Remember, i’m a complete roockie, and any copy n’ paste code examples would help me best…

Wishing you the best day.

Steve

I am trying to access my databaase through a JSON tutorial, but i am in the early phase and any JSON pass is not happening as atm i cannot even access my sample files, with the connection code, as it calls the syntax error.