Title: Error when activating plug in
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Error when activating plug in

 *  [bhvostal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bhvostal/)
 * (@bhvostal)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-when-activating-plug-in-1/)
 * The plugin returns the following error when attempting to activate it:
 * Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.
 * Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_FUNCTION, expecting ‘)’ in /home/bhvostal/
   public_html/wp-content/plugins/paypal-wp-button-manager/admin/partials/autoload.
   php on line 7
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/paypal-wp-button-manager/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/paypal-wp-button-manager/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [angelleye](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angelleye/)
 * (@angelleye)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-when-activating-plug-in-1/#post-6476669)
 * Can you please check your PHP version on your server? My guess is that it must
   be a version prior to 5.3, which is when the namespacing features of PHP were
   introduced, and that is how the autoloader works.

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## Tags

 * [activate](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/activate/)
 * [activated](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/activated/)
 * [fatal error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/fatal-error/)

 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [angelleye](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angelleye/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-when-activating-plug-in-1/#post-6476669)
 * Status: not resolved