Syntax error with session function on php5.3

Question

The following function works on php 5.6 but gives error on php 5.3 which is the version of the cpanel im using. im unable to update the cpanel php version so i need to find a workaround..

 $url =isset($_SESSION['url']) ? $_SESSION['url'] : [];

the error is:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '[' in /home/mydomain/public_html/mypage.php on line 7

any workaround is appreciated, thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Use array() instead of []. Yeah, it's PHP, not JavaScript.