Title: Fatal Error when activating
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Fatal Error when activating

 *  [kolleen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kolleen/)
 * (@kolleen)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-when-activating-38/)
 * I”m getting a fatal error when trying to activate this, any ideas on how to proceed?
 * Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING
   or ‘(‘ in /home2/XXXXXX/public_html/wp-content/plugins/pmpro-constant-contact/
   pmpro-constant-contact.php on line 15
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/pmpro-constant-contact/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/pmpro-constant-contact/)

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 *  [sjolshagen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sjolshagen/)
 * (@sjolshagen)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-when-activating-38/#post-7412351)
 * Hi Kolleen,
 * I suspect your web server environment is using a version of PHP that is older
   that v5.3.0 which is a minimum requirement because the Constant Contact library
   requires namespace support.
 * We should handle that a little more gracefully, so I’ll submit an update to the
   add-on/plugin that will return and print an error to the web server error log.
 * As far as fixing it for your environment, you can ask your web server host if
   they can upgrade your PHP version to something more recent (> 5.3.0, say 5.6.
   x) and try re-activating the plugin/add-on again.
 *  Thread Starter [kolleen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kolleen/)
 * (@kolleen)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-when-activating-38/#post-7412356)
 * Hi sjolshagen,
 * I just called Bluehost and they said it’s at 5.6
 * Any other suggestions?
 *  [sjolshagen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sjolshagen/)
 * (@sjolshagen)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-when-activating-38/#post-7412361)
 * I can’t reproduce this, unfortunately (I’ve tried with PHP 5.6, and a few other
   versions too) so am a a little bit of a loss.
 * What’s the version number you get if you install and view the output from the
   pmpinfo() plugin for WordPress? (“WordPress phpinfo()” by Chris Flannagan, the
   resulting info shows up under “Settings” -> “WordPress phpinfo()”)
 *  Thread Starter [kolleen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kolleen/)
 * (@kolleen)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-when-activating-38/#post-7412499)
 * Hey sjolshagen,
    I got this:
 * PHP Version 5.6.17

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 * Last activity: [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-when-activating-38/#post-7412499)
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