Unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM, expecting T_NS_Separator

Question

I moved an application from an Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) Server to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) server over the weekend. My error log is full of the PHP errors

Answer 1

It looks like your new server is running PHP 5.3, while your old one was running an earlier version.

In PHP 5.3, namespace is a keyword, thanks to the new namespace feature.

Your existing Namespace class is going to need to be renamed. The parse error is occurring as the code tries to resolve Namespace::isTalk() into a namespace name. (The syntax for doing so would be something akin to namespace Foo; it becomes confused at seeing the :: resolution operator.)

Answer 2

PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM is the name for the :: (it is Hebrew for twice colon)

Check all the lines that contain :: and make sure they are all correct calls.