Title: Error Activating
Last modified: November 22, 2017

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# Error Activating

 *  Resolved [gmaraujo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gmaraujo/)
 * (@gmaraujo)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-activating-9/)
 * After the update I can’t activate the plugin, Keep receiving this error.
 * Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_FUNCTION in /home/storage/a/a9/d8/superatacadista/
   public_html/georgearaujo/blog/wp-content/plugins/modern-footnotes/modern-footnotes.
   php on line 72

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 *  Plugin Author [prismtechstudios](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prismtechstudios/)
 * (@prismtechstudios)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-activating-9/#post-9708623)
 * I bet this is happening because you’re on a PHP version before 5.3. I’ll get 
   a fix released tomorrow for this.
 * Or, if it’s urgent, you could try changing line 72 of modern-footnotes.php to:
 * ‘sanitize_callback’ => ‘modern_footnotes_sanitize_callback’
 * And then adding this to the end of the same file:
    function modern_footnotes_sanitize_callback(
   $plugin_options) { return $plugin_options;}
 * I haven’t tested that yet though.
 *  Thread Starter [gmaraujo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gmaraujo/)
 * (@gmaraujo)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-activating-9/#post-9708634)
 * That’s it, my site is running on a PHP 5.2.17. I can wait for your fix! Tks for
   the quick answer!
 *  Plugin Author [prismtechstudios](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prismtechstudios/)
 * (@prismtechstudios)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-activating-9/#post-9711069)
 * I just released a new version that should fix this issue. Let me know if you 
   still get an error activating after updating the plugin!

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 * Last reply from: [prismtechstudios](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prismtechstudios/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-activating-9/#post-9711069)
 * Status: resolved