Title: Fatal Error as well, while activating, PHP version 5.4.29
Last modified: August 22, 2016
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# Fatal Error as well, while activating, PHP version 5.4.29
* Resolved [hyest](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hyest/)
* (@hyest)
* [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-as-well-while-activating-php-version-5429/)
* Hi there, I’m using the latest version of wordpress 3.9.2 with the Avada theme
and a few plugins. I’ve tried deactivating all plugins just in case but everytime
I try to activate this plugin I get “Plugin could not be activated because it
triggered a fatal error.” “
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM
in wp-content/plugins/official-add-to-homescreen/includes/admin.php on line 14″
* Everything I’ve read that caused this error has to do with php version 5.3. I
checked my cpanel and I’m running PHP 5.4.29 on Hostgator.
* Anything you think I can do to fix this issue? Really wanted to use your plugin.
Thanks for your time.
* [https://wordpress.org/plugins/official-add-to-homescreen/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/official-add-to-homescreen/)
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* Plugin Author [wordcubiq](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wordcubiq/)
* (@wordcubiq)
* [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-as-well-while-activating-php-version-5429/#post-5196488)
* can you try a phpinfo()?
* Thread Starter [hyest](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hyest/)
* (@hyest)
* [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-as-well-while-activating-php-version-5429/#post-5196519)
* Sure, I did that, phpinfo gives a lot of information, anything particular to
look for? Here’s the first block of data:
* PHP Version 5.2.17
* System Linux gator3304.hostgator.com 3.12.24 #1 SMP Thu Jul 10 04:59:56 CDT 2014
x86_64
Build Date Jun 10 2014 15:48:39 Configure Command ‘./configure’ ‘–enable-
bcmath’ ‘–enable-calendar’ ‘–enable-dbase’ ‘–enable-exif’ ‘–enable-fastcgi’ ‘–
enable-ftp’ ‘–enable-gd-native-ttf’ ‘–enable-libxml’ ‘–enable-magic-quotes’ ‘–
enable-mbstring’ ‘–enable-pdo=shared’ ‘–enable-soap’ ‘–enable-sockets’ ‘–enable-
sqlite-utf8’ ‘–enable-wddx’ ‘–enable-zip’ ‘–prefix=/opt/php52’ ‘–with-bz2’ ‘–
with-curl=/opt/curlssl/’ ‘–with-freetype-dir=/usr’ ‘–with-gd’ ‘–with-gettext’‘–
with-imap=/opt/php_with_imap_client/’ ‘–with-imap-ssl’ ‘–with-jpeg-dir=/usr’ ‘–
with-kerberos’ ‘–with-libexpat-dir=/usr’ ‘–with-mcrypt=/opt/libmcrypt/’ ‘–with-
mhash=/opt/mhash/’ ‘–with-mime-magic’ ‘–with-mssql=/usr’ ‘–with-mysql’ ‘–with-
mysql-sock=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock’ ‘–with-mysqli=/usr/bin/mysql_config’ ‘–
with-openssl=/opt/openssl’ ‘–with-openssl-dir=/opt/openssl’ ‘–with-pcre-regex’‘–
with-pdo-mysql=shared’ ‘–with-pdo-sqlite=shared’ ‘–with-pic’ ‘–with-png-dir=/
usr’ ‘–with-pspell’ ‘–with-sqlite=shared’ ‘–with-tidy’ ‘–with-ttf’ ‘–with-unixODBC
=/usr’ ‘–with-xmlrpc’ ‘–with-xpm-dir=/usr’ ‘–with-xsl’ ‘–with-zlib’ ‘–with-zlib-
dir=/usr’ Server API CGI/FastCGI Virtual Directory Support disabled Configuration
File (php.ini) Path /opt/php52/lib Loaded Configuration File /opt/php52/lib/php.
ini Scan this dir for additional .ini files (none) additional .ini files parsed(
none) PHP API 20041225 PHP Extension 20060613 Zend Extension 220060519 Debug
Build no Thread Safety disabled Zend Memory Manager enabled IPv6 Support enabled
Registered PHP Streams https, ftps, compress.zlib, compress.bzip2, php, file,
data, http, ftp, zip Registered Stream Socket Transports tcp, udp, unix, udg,
ssl, sslv3, sslv2, tls Registered Stream Filters zlib.*, bzip2.*, convert.iconv.*,
string.rot13, string.toupper, string.tolower, string.strip_tags, convert.*, consumed
* Plugin Author [wordcubiq](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wordcubiq/)
* (@wordcubiq)
* [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-as-well-while-activating-php-version-5429/#post-5196520)
* So it seems you actually have PHP 5.2. I believe the minimum requirement is 5.3.
* I’ll try to make the script 5.2 compatible but it’s not top priority.
* Thread Starter [hyest](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hyest/)
* (@hyest)
* [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-as-well-while-activating-php-version-5429/#post-5196534)
* Thanks Man, Jeez i’m blind after I did the phpinfo I didn’t realize it was php
5.2. I forgot a while back when hostgator upgraded to 5.4 that they gave the
option to still use 5.2 for compatibility reasons. Anyways I set php config to
use 5.4 for this website directory and the plugin activates good now.
* I was testing and only got it to work once but realized the “clear local storage”
button worked wonders when messing with settings.
* I have a script running so that when the user clicks any links within the site
except remote links it will stay in web app full screen mode. Anyways I have
the following tags already added to my header : `
`
* Do I still need the “Add Meta Tags” option selected? I’m not sure which meta
tags exactly this plugin adds.
* Great work by the way!
* Plugin Author [wordcubiq](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wordcubiq/)
* (@wordcubiq)
* [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-as-well-while-activating-php-version-5429/#post-5196535)
* yes, you should still add those meta tags. If you enable logging remember to
pick the “web app capable” option as detection mechanism (in the advanced tab)
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* Last activity: [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-as-well-while-activating-php-version-5429/#post-5196535)
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