php artisan tinker throws Parse error (unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM)

@bahjaat

T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM error often relates to a missing double colon or double quote.

::

do you have the rest of what is on line 1 in your error. Is there more of an error in your logs?

Apparently its a :: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/592322/php-expects-t-paamayim-nekudotayim

Do you have a git log of changes that have been made? Maybe that will throw some light on it?

nothing in the laravel logs

@bahjaat if you run your application, do you get any errors then?

No errors in application. Weird isn’t it?

@bahjaat you might also be worth clearing your composer cache

composer clearcache

delete your vendor packages, and then run

composer install

that will download brand new copies of your vendor packages rather than loading them from the cache again. That should resolve any issue with the vendor packages.

I'm a bit further. When I remove "darkaonline/l5-swagger": "^7.0" from composer.json tinker is working again. Added the package to the 'don't discover' part of the composer.json. Didn't mather.

How can I debug what tinker is doing/loading?

@bahjaat have you checked that package’s GitHub page for any issues with the version of Laravel you are running?

I would also check through any recent code changes you’ve made In your application, back to the last time you last ran tinker

Found out tinker can also have -vvv argument. php artisan tinker -vvv

Psy Shell v0.10.4 (PHP 7.3.22 — cli) by Justin Hileman
>>> \URL::to('test')
PHP Parse error: Syntax error, unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM, expecting '(' on line 1
--
 () at vendor/psy/psysh/src/Exception/ParseErrorException.php:40
 Psy\Exception\ParseErrorException::fromParseError() at vendor/psy/psysh/src/CodeCleaner.php:294
 Psy\CodeCleaner->parse() at vendor/psy/psysh/src/CodeCleaner.php:221
 Psy\CodeCleaner->clean() at vendor/psy/psysh/src/Shell.php:829
 Psy\Shell->addCode() at vendor/psy/psysh/src/Shell.php:521
 Psy\Shell->getInput() at vendor/psy/psysh/src/ExecutionLoopClosure.php:40
 Psy\{closure}() at vendor/psy/psysh/src/ExecutionClosure.php:96
 Psy\ExecutionClosure->execute() at vendor/psy/psysh/src/Shell.php:370
 Psy\Shell->doInteractiveRun() at vendor/psy/psysh/src/Shell.php:341
 Psy\Shell->doRun() at vendor/symfony/console/Application.php:140
 Symfony\Component\Console\Application->run() at vendor/psy/psysh/src/Shell.php:316
 Psy\Shell->run() at vendor/laravel/tinker/src/Console/TinkerCommand.php:81
 Laravel\Tinker\Console\TinkerCommand->handle() at n/a:n/a
 call_user_func_array() at vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/BoundMethod.php:37
 Illuminate\Container\BoundMethod::Illuminate\Container\{closure}() at vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Util.php:37
 Illuminate\Container\Util::unwrapIfClosure() at vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/BoundMethod.php:95
 Illuminate\Container\BoundMethod::callBoundMethod() at vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/BoundMethod.php:39
 Illuminate\Container\BoundMethod::call() at vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php:596
 Illuminate\Container\Container->call() at vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Console/Command.php:134
 Illuminate\Console\Command->execute() at vendor/symfony/console/Command/Command.php:258
 Symfony\Component\Console\Command\Command->run() at vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Console/Command.php:121
 Illuminate\Console\Command->run() at vendor/symfony/console/Application.php:916
 Symfony\Component\Console\Application->doRunCommand() at vendor/symfony/console/Application.php:264
 Symfony\Component\Console\Application->doRun() at vendor/symfony/console/Application.php:140
 Symfony\Component\Console\Application->run() at vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Console/Application.php:93
 Illuminate\Console\Application->run() at vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Console/Kernel.php:129
 Illuminate\Foundation\Console\Kernel->handle() at artisan:37

Package is still in my composer.json

composer update seems to fixed it (after a couple of days)

@bahjaat maybe something that got broken in your composer cache?

glad its been solved though

I encountered this too after switching from Unix to Windows There's no issue in UNIX

PS D:\www\backend> php artisan tinker -vvv Psy Shell v0.11.9 (PHP 8.1.12 — cli) by Justin Hileman

\App\Models\User:first()

PARSE ERROR PHP Parse error: Syntax error, unexpected ':' in vendor\psy\psysh\src\Exception\ParseErrorException.php on line 40.

-- () at vendor\psy\psysh\src\Exception\ParseErrorException.php:40 Psy\Exception\ParseErrorException::fromParseError() at vendor\psy\psysh\src\CodeCleaner.php:340 Psy\CodeCleaner->parse() at vendor\psy\psysh\src\CodeCleaner.php:267 Psy\CodeCleaner->clean() at vendor\psy\psysh\src\Shell.php:866 Psy\Shell->addCode() at vendor\psy\psysh\src\Shell.php:549 Psy\Shell->getInput() at vendor\psy\psysh\src\ExecutionLoopClosure.php:40 Psy{closure}() at vendor\psy\psysh\src\ExecutionClosure.php:89 Psy\ExecutionClosure->execute() at vendor\psy\psysh\src\Shell.php:395 Psy\Shell->doInteractiveRun() at vendor\psy\psysh\src\Shell.php:366 Psy\Shell->doRun() at vendor\symfony\console\Application.php:171 Symfony\Component\Console\Application->run() at vendor\psy\psysh\src\Shell.php:341 Psy\Shell->run() at vendor\laravel\tinker\src\Console\TinkerCommand.php:85 Laravel\Tinker\Console\TinkerCommand->handle() at vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Container\BoundMethod.php:36 Illuminate\Container\BoundMethod::Illuminate\Container{closure}() at vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Container\Util.php:40 Illuminate\Container\Util::unwrapIfClosure() at vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Container\BoundMethod.php:93 Illuminate\Container\BoundMethod::callBoundMethod() at vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Container\BoundMethod.php:37 Illuminate\Container\BoundMethod::call() at vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Container\Container.php:653 Illuminate\Container\Container->call() at vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Console\Command.php:136 Illuminate\Console\Command->execute() at vendor\symfony\console\Command\Command.php:298 Symfony\Component\Console\Command\Command->run() at vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Console\Command.php:121 Illuminate\Console\Command->run() at vendor\symfony\console\Application.php:1040 Symfony\Component\Console\Application->doRunCommand() at vendor\symfony\console\Application.php:301 Symfony\Component\Console\Application->doRun() at vendor\symfony\console\Application.php:171 Symfony\Component\Console\Application->run() at vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Console\Application.php:94 Illuminate\Console\Application->run() at vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Foundation\Console\Kernel.php:129 Illuminate\Foundation\Console\Kernel->handle() at artisan:37