Title: Cannot Activate; parse error
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Cannot Activate; parse error

 *  Resolved [mostlyjan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mostlyjan/)
 * (@mostlyjan)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-parse-error/)
 * hi there,
    my site is up to date and we do not run a lof of plugins. when i was
   just told to upgrade yours, i cannot reactivate it. i get this error:
 * Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM in /nfs/new/wp-content/
   plugins/the-events-calendar-category-colors/the-events-calendar-category-colors.
   php on line 36
 * any ideas? this was working fin until i just updated yours. THANK YOU
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar-category-colors/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar-category-colors/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Andy Fragen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/afragen/)
 * (@afragen)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-parse-error/#post-5177777)
 * Please disable for now. New update being tested.
 *  Plugin Author [Andy Fragen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/afragen/)
 * (@afragen)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-parse-error/#post-5177782)
 * Try version 3.6.3 and let me know.
 *  Plugin Author [Andy Fragen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/afragen/)
 * (@afragen)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-parse-error/#post-5177802)
 * I think v3.6.4 will fix it. You must be using PHP < 5.3
 *  Thread Starter [mostlyjan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mostlyjan/)
 * (@mostlyjan)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-parse-error/#post-5177817)
 * whoa. the new version works perfectly. thank you so much.
    i installed phpinfo
   and we are indeed running an older version of php. v5.2.17
 *  Plugin Author [Andy Fragen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/afragen/)
 * (@afragen)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-parse-error/#post-5177818)
 * I guess I’m going to run into this occasionally as I’m running on higher version.
   If you can, you really should get your host to update to a more current version
   of PHP.
 * Glad we got this figured out. I hate to break stuff.

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 * [T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/t_paamayim_nekudotayim/)

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 * Last reply from: [Andy Fragen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/afragen/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-parse-error/#post-5177818)
 * Status: resolved