private $query = ""; --> syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION...

Hello dear MySQL developers, i am mere user and i want to ask you if you can please let me know what is wrong in the file backend/mysql.class.php

I am asking because the script i have uploaded says this:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /backend/mysql.class.php on line 23

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Line 23 is:...

private $query = ""; --> syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION...

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