DV 2021 CC, public function conversion($country){ ... syntax error - unexpected public (T_PUBLIC)

Hi, Ben,

Thanks for the replay. This is the situation:

I have DV open in split view. It is not that error message appears if I run the code. No. it is a PHP file and the code I copied from a book. The code has 29 lines with numbers if front of each line. All numbers are gray (normal) except number 13 is red. If I hover over that red number 13 then the message above it appears: "syntax error, unexpected 'public' (T_PUBLIC)".

This is the line 13:

public function conversion($country){

I just started learning (my first lesson) OOP in PHP and this line is supposed to define a public function inside a class description. The example is from a book from SitePoint (Learn PHP in One Day and Learn It Well, chapter 9.2 - Writing our own class).

Bellow is the code . The line in question is in bold (I added most of the comments myself for a reference):

<?php
class Movie{
    //Add class members here -  properties (variables), constants and methds (functions):
    private $id; //property - just DECLARED for now, not initialized yet. It will be initialized later by a special method called constructor.
    public $title; //property - just DECLARED for now, not initialized yet. It will be initialized later by a special method called constructor.
    public $rentalPrice; //property - just DECLARED for now, not initialized yet. It will be initialized later by a special method called constructor.
    const DISCOUNT = 10; //constant - declared AND assigned a value. NOTE: To define CONSTANT within a class we use constant KEYWORD, instead define() FUNCTION.
    /* There are some methods (functions)in PHP that have special functionalities and thery are called MAGIC METHODS. Their names are predefined and start with __ The first one to be called whenever we create an object from the class is __construct() and is named CONSTRUCTOR. It is typically used to initialize properties inside the class.*/
    public function __construct($pId, $pTitle, $pRentalPrice){// Here, we define a constructor with three parameters.
    $this->id = $pId; // property - initialized just now. Whenever we want to access the properties and methods of a class inside the class, we use the $this keyword, followed by the -> operator.
    $this->title = $pTitle; // property - initialized just now. Whenever we want to access the properties and methods of a class inside the class, we use the $this keyword, followed by the -> operator.
    $this->rentalPrice = $pRentalPrice; /* property - initialized just now. Whenever we want to access the properties and methods of a class inside the class, we use the $this keyword, followed by the -> operator.*/
    public function conversion($country){
    $rate = 1;
    switch($country){ // this is a parameter so we don't use keyword $this.
        case 'UK':
          $rate = 0.76; // this is a local variable (variable declared inside the method) so we don't use keyword $this.
           break;
         case 'Japan':
           $rate = 110; // this is a local variable (variable declared inside the method) so we don't use keyword $this.
           break;
    }
 
    return round($rate*$this->rentalPrice, 2);
}
}
   
}

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Nothing serious or important, just practicing, but would like to learn an understand properly and in details.

Thank you for your time and understanding,

Dragan