I am a C# guy trying to translate some of my OOP understanding over to php. I'm trying to make my first class object, and are hitting a few hitches.

Here is the beginning of the class:

<?php

require("Database/UserDB.php");

class User {

  private var $uid;
  private var $username;
  private var $password;
  private var $realname;
  private var $email;
  private var $address;
  private var $phone;
  private var $projectArray;

  public function _construct($username) {

    $userArray = UserDB::GetUserArray($username);
    $uid       = $userArray['uid'];
    $username  = $userArray['username'];
    $realname  = $userArray['realname'];
    $email     = $userArray['email'];
    $phone     = $userArray['phone'];
    $i = 1;
    $projectArray = UserDB::GetUserProjects($this->GetID());
    while($projectArray[$i] != null) {
      $projectArray[$i] = new Project($projectArray[$i]);
    }

UserDB.php is where I have all my static functions interacting with the Database for this User Class. I am getting errors using when I use var, and I'm getting confused. I know I don't HAVE to use var, or declare the variables at all, but I feel it is a better practice to do so.

the error is "unexpected T_VAR, expecting T_VARIABLE"

When I simply remove var from the declarations it works. Why is this?