PHP password Hash/Varify

[vorticalbox]

	<?php
$password ="letmein";
echo $password."<br>";
$hash = password_hash($password, PASSWORD_DEFAULT);
echo $hash."<br>";

if (password_verify($password, $hash)) {
    echo 'Password is valid!';
} else {
    echo 'Invalid password.';
}
?>

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '$hash' (T_VARIABLE), expecting ',' or ')' in C:\xampp\htdocs\includes\hash.php on line 7

I don't see anything wrong with my code.

 

EDIT: deleted the if statement and wrote it out again and it works fine

[colonel_mortis]

After removing the "\n" at the end of line 4, that code works as intended for me, so I'm not sure why it wouldn't be working for you. If you dump get_defined_constants(), are any of the PASSWORD_ constants defined?

 

EDIT: This response was to a previous version of the post

Edited August 6, 2016 by colonel_mortis

[vorticalbox]

after removing the "\n" the if didn't work as in new OP, but after deleting it and typing it by hand rather than coping it from another page works.