MAMP: HTTP Error 500 from PHP file

Question

Getting HTTP Error 500 on a local MAMP server when trying to execute a php file.

All my other pages will run however this one will not so I'm thinking that it maybe something to do with the php settings?

<?php 

// User.class.php

require_once 'DB.class.php';

class User {

    public $id;
    public $username;
    public $hashedPassword;
    public $email;
    public $joinDate;

    // Takes an associative array with the DB row as an argument.

    function __construct($data) {

        $this->id = (isset($data['id'])) ? $data['id'] : "";
        $this->username = (isset($data['username'])) ? $data['username'] : "";
        $this->hashedPassword = (isset($data['password'])) ? $data['password'] : "";
        $this->email = (isset($data['email'])) ? $data['email'] : "";
        $this->joinDate = (isset($data['join_date'])) ? $data['join_date'] : "";

    }

    public function save($isNewUser = false) {

        $db = new DB();

        // Update already registered user.
        if (!$isNewUser) {

            $data = array(
                "username" => "'$this->username'";
                "password" => "'$this->hashedPassword'";
                "email" => "'$this->email'";
            );

            $db->update($data, 'users', 'id = '.$this->id);

        }

        // Register new user.
        else {

            $data = array(
                "username" => "'$this->username'";
                "password" => "'$this->hashedPassword'";
                "email" => "'$this->email'";
                "join_date" => "'".date("Y-m-d H:i:s", time())."'"
            );

            $this->id = $db->insert($data, 'users');
            $this->joinDate = time();

        }

        return true;    

    }

}

?>

PHP Error Log:

[13-May-2011 23:58:28] PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected ';', expecting ')' in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/Project/classes/User.class.php on line 35

Solution 1

Maybe because you have array values terminated with semi-colons when it should be commas:

$data = array(
                "username" => "'$this->username'";
                "password" => "'$this->hashedPassword'";
                "email" => "'$this->email'";
                "join_date" => "'".date("Y-m-d H:i:s", time())."'"
            );

should be:

$data = array(
                "username" => $this->username,
                "password" => $this->hashedPassword,
                "email" => $this->email,
                "join_date" => date("Y-m-d H:i:s", time())
            );

Solution 2

An array with semi-colons should cause a Fatal Error in PHP, not a 500 Internal Server error.

Comments

[JJJ]

Those two aren't mutually exclusive. Apache will send 500 Internal Server Error when PHP throws a fatal error.

[Nathan]

The annoying thing is that this only happens MAMP. In WAMP it does an actual PHP error, but in MAMP it always does a 500 error which is annoying because I have to go to the error log to see the error.