PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '*' in /vendor/stripe/stripe-php/lib/HttpClient/CurlClient.php on line 461"

[discry]

I believe that I have identified a bug in CurlClient which looks like bad syntax:

The above error was happening for me on the newest version of the library

7.28.1 - 2020-04-10

• #915 Improve PHPdocs for many classes
  Error in new code:

$sleepSeconds = \min(
    Stripe::getInitialNetworkRetryDelay() * 1.0 * 2 ** ($numRetries - 1),
    Stripe::getMaxNetworkRetryDelay()
);

Working code in older version (6.4.2):

$sleepSeconds = min(
    Stripe::getInitialNetworkRetryDelay() * 1.0 * pow(2, $numRetries - 1),
    Stripe::getMaxNetworkRetryDelay()
);

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[ob-stripe]

@discry Which version of PHP are you using?

[jfuentesa]

You are using PHP 5.5 or below, the operator ** was introduced on PHP 5.6

[ob-stripe]

Yes, this is almost certainly what's happening. As of v7.0.0, stripe-php requires PHP 5.6 or more recent.

Closing, but feel free to reply.