解析错误：语法错误，第12行/home/public_html/gigs.html中的意外T_LIST

Question

I'm trying to build an events page for my band's website using PHP to list our upcoming gigs (I'm still quite new to server side script) And I keep getting the above error displaying on the page in browser. I'm sure there's something simple I'm missing / doing wrong but I can't seem to figure out what it is (I'm struggling to find relevant info online too)

Here is my code on the html / php page

<?php
$body_id = 'gigs'
?>

<?php include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/fragments/html.html'); ?>

<div class="content-left">

    <?php
    include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/php/arr_gigs.php');

    foreach ($gig as list($day, $month, $year, $location, $description, $event_link, $ticket_link)) {

        echo '<span class="top">
\t';
        if ($ticket_link = true){
            echo '<a href="$ticket_link" onClick="return false;"> BOOK TICKETS </a>
';
        };
        echo '</span>

';                         
        echo '<span class="bottom">
\t';
        echo '<a href="$event_link" class="gig-tag" onClick="return false;">
\t\t';
        echo '<span class="when">$day \/ $month - $location</span>
\t\t';
        echo '<span class="where">$description</span>
\t';
        echo '</a>
';
        echo '</span>
';
    };
?>

</div>

And here is php/arr_gigs.php where I hope to put in all the gig details, date, location, links etc.

<?php

$gig = [
[28,12,2013,
'The Firebug - Leicester', 
'with more awesome bands',
'www.facebook.com',
'www.seetickets.com'],

[19,04,2014,
'Pi Bar - Leicester', 
'(acts tbc)',
'www.facebook.com',
''],
];

?>

As far as I know I'm running the latest version of PHP (5.3 or similar) If there's any help or advice someone could give me I'd be really grateful :) Or if you think there's a better way I could achieve the desired effect

Answer 1

The following line of code is not valid in PHP versions prior to 5.5 (this means you are not using PHP 5.5):

foreach ($gig as list($day, $month, $year, $location, $description, $event_link, $ticket_link)) {

If you wish to get all of those values either use the array syntax to access them:

foreach ($gig as $giginfo) {
    echo $giginfo['day'];

Or use a while loop:

while (list($day, $month, $year, $location, $description, $event_link, $ticket_link) = each($gig)) {

Or use extract() (not recommended):

foreach ($gig as $giginfo) {
    extract($giginfo);

As for your array, you are using a syntax that is only available in PHP 5.4. So you will need to use array() syntax instead:

<?php

$gig = array(
    array(28,12,2013,
        'The Firebug - Leicester', 
        'with more awesome bands',
        'www.facebook.com',
        'www.seetickets.com'
    ),
    array(
        19,04,2014,
        'Pi Bar - Leicester', 
        '(acts tbc)',
        'www.facebook.com',
        ''
    ),
);

?>