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I have searched online for hours and haven't found anything that fixes my error. I have a file with this code,

<?php
   class Conn {
   public static $dbhost = “localhost”;
   public static $dbuser = " < provide here user name to your database> ";
   public static $dbpass = "< password you use to access database >";
   public static $dbname = " <database name> ";
   }
?>

and here's my error, Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'here' (T_STRING), expecting ',' or ';' in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/Registration/Conn.php on line 4

I've tried changing " to ' yet it doesn't help!

I don't have any open strings, so what's the problem???

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marked as duplicate by Fred -ii-, Rizier123 php Jun 30 '15 at 23:09

This question was marked as an exact duplicate of an existing question.
    
curly quotes are killing your code – Fred -ii- Jun 30 '15 at 23:06
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That is the curly quotes in $dbhost=“localhost” – Norbert van Nobelen Jun 30 '15 at 23:08
    
That doesn't fix it – nathan Hunsberger Jun 30 '15 at 23:09
    
here copy/paste this "localhost"; these types of questions are off-topic btw – Fred -ii- Jun 30 '15 at 23:09
    
ideone.com/V66mNp shows no problems after replacing curly quotes – ssnobody Jun 30 '15 at 23:10
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If you look at your code example, you can see you are using two different types of quotation marks. "localhost" is wrapped in curly quotes (“”), and not normal quotes. ("") This is causing the parsing error.

The difference:

“localhost”
"localhost"
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I tried yet it doesn't change the error! – nathan Hunsberger Jun 30 '15 at 23:14
    
Could you post the new code, as you did in your original post? – true Jun 30 '15 at 23:14
    
The error seems to be stemming from how you are using this class. What code is accessing these public members prior to the error being thrown? – true Jun 30 '15 at 23:22
    
Ok so my browser was apparently not updating the code, just had to quit and restart and it was all fixed, THANKS!! – nathan Hunsberger Jun 30 '15 at 23:24
    
That's great! Glad I could help. Be sure to mark this answer as accepted if this was the solution. :) Thanks! – true Jun 30 '15 at 23:26

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