Unable to install neoclient on Windows - php

Question

I am following the directions given here to install neoclient on Windows 7 -
https://github.com/neoxygen/neo4j-neoclient
But I get the error -
<b>Parse error</b>: syntax error, unexpected 'use' (T_USE) in <b>C:\xampp\htdocs\send.php</b> on line <b>7</b><br />
when I try to run the sample php code.
My code is -
<?php
try
{
require_once 'vendor/autoload.php';
use Neoxygen\NeoClient\ClientBuilder;
$client = ClientBuilder::create()
->addConnection('default','http','localhost',7474)
->build();
$version = $client->getNeo4jVersion();
}
catch(Exception $e)
{
echo $e->getMessage();
}
echo $version;
?>
composer.json -
{
"name": "neoxygen/neoclient",
"type": "library",
"description": "NeoClient is the most advanced Http Client for Neo4j",
"keywords": [
"graph",
"neo4j",
"cluster",
"client",
"high-availibility"
],
"homepage": "http://neoxygen.io",
"license": "MIT",
"authors": [
{
"name": "Christophe Willemsen",
"email": "chris#neoxygen.io"
}
],
"require": {
"php": ">= 5.5",
"guzzlehttp/guzzle": "^6.0",
"monolog/monolog": "~1.1",
"symfony/yaml": "^2.7",
"symfony/config": "^2.7",
"symfony/dependency-injection": "^2.7",
"symfony/event-dispatcher": "^2.7",
"graphaware/neo4j-response-formatter": "^1.0"
},
"require-dev": {
"phpspec/phpspec": "~2.0",
"phpunit/phpunit": "4.*",
"bossa/phpspec2-expect": "*",
"behat/behat": "~3.0"
},
"autoload": {
"psr-4": {
"Neoxygen\\NeoClient\\": "src/"
}
},
"autoload-dev": {
"psr-4": {
"Neoxygen\\NeoClient\\Tests\\": "tests/Neoxygen/NeoClient/Tests"
}
},
"extra": {
"branch-alias": {
"dev-master": "3.1-dev"
}
}
}

Answer 1

I'm the maintainer of NeoClient.
I don't think I have ever seen this piece of code somewhere, please point to a link.
Especially, require and use statements should be in the beginning of the file, after the open tag.
Secondly, you don't need to instantiate the client in a try/catch block.
Here is the correct piece of code :
<?php
require_once 'vendor/autoload.php';
use Neoxygen\NeoClient\ClientBuilder;
$client = ClientBuilder::create()
->addConnection('default','http','localhost',7474)
->build();
try
{
$version = $client->getNeo4jVersion();
}
catch(Exception $e)
{
echo $e->getMessage();
}
echo $version;
?>