Title: FATAL ERROR Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘[‘, expecting ‘)’
Last modified: February 25, 2018

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# FATAL ERROR Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘[‘, expecting ‘)’

 *  ResolvedPlugin Author [Elisabeth Pointal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/epointal/)
 * (@epointal)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-parse-error-syntax-error-unexpected-expecting/)
 * This error come from using old php version (< 5.6)
    You must use php version 
   >=5.6
 * This error can block any update of the plugins. You must then directly delete
   the folder of the lf-hiker plugin

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-parse-error-syntax-error-unexpected-expecting/)
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