Title: Error when activating plugin
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Error when activating plugin

 *  ResolvedPlugin Author [CreativeMindsSolutions](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creativemindssolutions/)
 * (@creativemindssolutions)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-when-activating-plugin-2/)
 * We got a report that the Plugin is reporting error when activated
 * Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM in […]/wp-content/
   plugins/cm-email-blacklist/lib/models/Validate.php on line 23
 * The reason is that Plugin uses a structure which was introduced only with PHP
   5.3.0. So if the version of PHP is lower it does not work
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cm-email-blacklist/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cm-email-blacklist/)

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 *  Plugin Author [CreativeMindsSolutions](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creativemindssolutions/)
 * (@creativemindssolutions)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-when-activating-plugin-2/#post-3457638)
 * Version 1.1 display an a warning in case PHP version old

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 * ![](https://ps.w.org/cm-email-blacklist/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=3230135)
 * [CM E-Mail Blacklist - Simple email filtering for safer registration](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cm-email-blacklist/)
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 * Last reply from: [CreativeMindsSolutions](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creativemindssolutions/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-when-activating-plugin-2/#post-3457638)
 * Status: resolved