Title: Error activating – needs PHP 5.3 or higher
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Error activating – needs PHP 5.3 or higher

 *  [Quest The Wordsmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/quest-the-wordsmith/)
 * (@quest-the-wordsmith)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-activating-needs-php-53-or-higher/)
 * I have 1and1 as my hosting provider. This is the error I received when trying
   to activate this plugin:
 * > Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM in /XXXX/wp-content/
   > plugins/autochimp/autochimp.php on line 852
 * A little research showed that this plugin needs to be used with PHP 5.3 or higher.
   For anyone using 1and1 servers, this was as simple as adding this line to your.
   htaccess file:
 * > AddHandler x-mapp-php6 .php
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/autochimp/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/autochimp/)

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 * Last reply from: [Quest The Wordsmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/quest-the-wordsmith/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-activating-needs-php-53-or-higher/)
 * Status: not resolved