Title: Error when activating the plugin
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Error when activating the plugin

 *  [Ilona](https://wordpress.org/support/users/filona/)
 * (@filona)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-when-activating-the-plugin-3/)
 * The plugin throws the following error upon activating:
 * Warning: Unexpected character in input: ‘\’ (ASCII=92) state=1 in /home/taylzdev/
   public_html/wp-content/plugins/rating-widget/rating-widget.php(431) : eval()’
   d code on line 38
 * Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started
   at /home/taylzdev/public_html/wp-content/plugins/rating-widget/rating-widget.
   php(431) : eval()’d code:38) in /home/taylzdev/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.
   php on line 1121
 * Any suggestions?
 * Thanks
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/rating-widget/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/rating-widget/)

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 *  Plugin Author [RatingWidget](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ratingwidget/)
 * (@ratingwidget)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-when-activating-the-plugin-3/#post-5359494)
 * Hi [@ilona](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ilona/),
 * Can you please try to upgrade to our newest version and let us know if that still
   happens. Thanks!
 *  Thread Starter [Ilona](https://wordpress.org/support/users/filona/)
 * (@filona)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-when-activating-the-plugin-3/#post-5359499)
 * Thanks for the reply, I upgraded to 2.1.9, but I’m still getting the error when
   trying to activate the plugin:
 * Warning: Unexpected character in input: ‘\’ (ASCII=92) state=1 in …../plugins/
   rating-widget/rating-widget.php(428) : eval()’d code on line 30
 *  Plugin Author [RatingWidget](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ratingwidget/)
 * (@ratingwidget)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-when-activating-the-plugin-3/#post-5359528)
 * Thanks for the update. Do you have any security plugin? Also, what is your hosting
   company?
 *  Thread Starter [Ilona](https://wordpress.org/support/users/filona/)
 * (@filona)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-when-activating-the-plugin-3/#post-5359530)
 * I don’t really have any security plugins. I am hosting with Memset. Could this
   be a php issue?

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## Tags

 * [Activating](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/activating/)
 * [eval](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/eval/)
 * [php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/php/)

 * 4 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Ilona](https://wordpress.org/support/users/filona/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-when-activating-the-plugin-3/#post-5359530)
 * Status: not resolved