Title: error when i active plugin.
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# error when i active plugin.

 *  [emaarkhan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emaarkhan/)
 * (@emaarkhan)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-when-i-active-plugin/)
 * hi, i am learning plugin development. but when i activate a plugin, it says this
   error
    **The plugin generated 157 characters of unexpected output during activation.
   If you notice “headers already sent” messages, problems with syndication feeds
   or other issues, try deactivating or removing this plugin.** and my code is
 *     ```
       /*
       Plugin Name: Awesomeness
       Plugin URI: http://www.emaarworkx.com/my-work
       Author URI: http://www.emaarworkx.com/
       Author: abc
       Description: Just a fun plugin
       */
       function fubs(){
       	error.log("this is working");
       }
       register_activation_hook(__FILE__,'fubs');
       ```
   
 * what am i doing wrong?

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 *  [s_ha_dum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apljdi/)
 * (@apljdi)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-when-i-active-plugin/#post-2900795)
 * Well, `error.log` doesn’t even look like PHP at all, so the parser is probably
   echoing a NOTICE. Maybe you wanted [`error_log`](http://php.net/manual/en/function.error-log.php)?
 *  Thread Starter [emaarkhan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emaarkhan/)
 * (@emaarkhan)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-when-i-active-plugin/#post-2900796)
 * fudge! i didn’t noticed it. its activated. thanks!

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

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 * Last reply from: [emaarkhan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emaarkhan/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-when-i-active-plugin/#post-2900796)
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