title: I don't see why Im getting this error
body: <p>I know that this is a syntax error, but I don't see what's wrong with what I did. The error is</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or '{' or '$' on line 8</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>and the code is</p>
  
  <pre><code>   class Person {
      public $isAlive=true;
      public $firstname;
      public $lastname;
      public $age;
      public function __construct()
      {
      $teacher-&gt;"boring"=$firstname;
      $teacher-&gt;"12345"=$lastname;
      $teacher-&gt;12345=$age;
      $student-&gt;"Natalie Euley"=$firstname;
      $student-&gt;"Euley"=$lastname;
      $student-&gt;19=$age;
      }
      public function greet()
      {
      return "Hello, my name is ".$this-&gt;firstname." ".$this-&gt;lastname. "Nice to meet you!";
      }
      }
      $student = new Person();
      $teacher = new Person();
      echo $student-&gt;greet();
      echo $techer-&gt;greet();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I now understand. CodeAcademy has confusing directions. I get how to do it now. Thanks for explaining everything!</p>