Title: Error – Cannot activate
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Error – Cannot activate

 *  Resolved [phausmanns](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phausmanns/)
 * (@phausmanns)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-cannot-activate/)
 * when i activate the plugin a get a fatal error that it can’t be activate
 * > Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘,’, expecting ‘]’ in /home/marotte/domains/
   > marotte.nl/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-songbook/inc/class.mess.php on
   > line 33
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 *  Plugin Author [sjiamnocna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sjiamnocna/)
 * (@sjiamnocna)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-cannot-activate/#post-7544196)
 * Hi! It’s very difficult to find any error in code, however I studied that line
   of code and I suppose you using lower PHP version than 5.4 which doesn’t support
   shortened array syntax.
    Try v2.0.6, I returned it back to the full syntax

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-cannot-activate/#post-7544196)
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