Title: Error message
Last modified: August 24, 2019

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# Error message

 *  Resolved [jamespeasle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamespeasle/)
 * (@jamespeasle)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-768/)
 * When I try to activate plugin, error message appears: Parse error: syntax error,
   unexpected ‘.’, expecting ‘&’ or variable (T_VARIABLE) in…..
    Help, please!

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 *  Plugin Author [wpDataTables](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpdatatables/)
 * (@wpdatatables)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-768/#post-11864441)
 * Hi there, could you please check if your PHP version on the server is 5.4 or 
   higher (7.* preferred)?
 * Thanks

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