PHP parse error bracket expected

Question

When I run the following PHP code:

<?php

$start = "https://en.wikipedia.org";

function follow_links($url) {

    $doc = new DOMDocument();
    $doc->loadHTML(file_get_contents($url));

    $linklist = $doc->getElementsByTagName("a");

    foreach ($linklist = $link) {
        echo $link->getAttribute("href")."\n";
    }
}

follow_links($start);

Error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ')' in C:\xampp\htdocs\test.php on line 12

What am I doing wrong, because I swear that I have closed all brackets correctly.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 18 '17 at 03:37

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Change your foreach loop to this. foreach reference

foreach ($linklist as $link) {
        echo $link->getAttribute("href")."\n";
    }

answered Mar 18 '17 at 03:37

Sahil Gulati

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 18 '17 at 03:37

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You need to change this

foreach ($linklist = $link) {

to this..

foreach ($linklist as $link) {

answered Mar 18 '17 at 03:37

Rick

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thanks, to used to assigning variables in other languages, never really used php before. – Benjamin Herne Mar 18 '17 at 03:56

PHP parse error bracket expected

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