Unexpected bracket '[' - PHP [duplicate]

Question

I'm writing a small repository for my little app team's Java code, and I have this error all over my code.

$base = explode(".", $class)[0];

The problem occurs only with this one line of code, every time. As far as I know, the above is correct PHP syntax, so what's going on?

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '[' in .../mitc/code/index.php on line 27

If you'd like to see the error, it's at http://chancehenrik.x10.mx/mitc/code/ and elsewhere on my site.

Answer 1

That's called array dereferencing and only works in PHP 5.4+. You're probably running PHP 5.3.x wherever you are getting that error.

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