php - PDO parse error unexpected ":"

Thursday 11 January 2018

I'm trying to establish a new PDO instance with the following
code

$handler
            = new PDO(“mysql:host=127.0.0.1;dbname=database”,
“root”,
            “”);

I get the
following error message:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting ',' or ')' in
/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/example/connection.php on line
2

There
has been no problems like this before until I attempted to do this on a new Mac. Can
someone help with this issue?

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class="normal">Answer

try
this:

$handler = new
            PDO("mysql:host=127.0.0.1;dbname=database",
"root",
            "");

your quotes were
wrong

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