[RESOLVED] Silly problem..

[|2eM!x]

Say i wanted to code my script shorter, like so:

<?php
    $handle = fopen('mytxt.txt', 'r');
    $contents = (@fread($handle,filesize('mytxt.txt')))[B][COLOR=DarkOrange]++[/COLOR][/B];
    fclose($handle);
    $handle = fopen('mytxt.txt','w');
    fwrite($handle,$contents);
    fclose($handle);
    echo $contents;
?>

instead of doing $contents++

why does that return a parse error? its the same exact thing i think