What is going on with my PHP class variable?
<p>I made this stupidly simple PHP file containing</p>

<pre><code>&lt;?php

class stuff {
    private $var;
}

?&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>and results in this error when run:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p><strong>Parse error</strong>: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in . . . on line <strong>4</strong></p>
</blockquote>

<p>To make things even more confusing, it functions normally on a different domain with the same host. Surely the folder and domain have nothing to do with whether class properties can be defined. What is going on here??</p>
