Laravel local virtual host returning FatalErrorException on MAMP server

Question

I am working on a project, I decided to create local virtual host to keep my URL clean and easy.

When ever I hit a route that uses a controller it returns this error: Symfony \\ Component \\ Debug \\ Exception \\ FatalErrorException Can't use function return value in write context

I cannot figure what is causing this.

Anyone else run into this type of error on this environment? Any tips are appreciated. Thank you.

Answer 1

There are two general causes for this error. The first is something like this:

echo $_POST('test');

Notice that instead of indexing the array, you're calling a function. This will cause this error. Another cause of that particular error could be something like this:

$test = ' ';
if(empty(trim($test)) { // There be dragons

This is because the only valid arguments to the empty function are variables (you cannot call a function inside the call to empty ). Per the docs :

Note: Prior to PHP 5.5, empty() only supports variables; anything else will result in a parse error. In other words, the following will not work: empty(trim($name)). Instead, use trim($name) == false.

The same restrictions on empty also apply to isset as well .