Title: fatal error when activating this plugin
Last modified: October 21, 2016

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# fatal error when activating this plugin

 *  Resolved [kinghot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kinghot/)
 * (@kinghot)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-when-activating-this-plugin-2/)
 * Hi,
 * When activating this plugin, we saw this error:
 * Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘[‘ in /srv/sites/marketplace/wp-content/
   plugins/timeline-express-html-excerpt-add-on/timeline-express-html-excerpts-add-
   on.php on line 64
 * can you take a look at this?
 * PHP information:
    PHP 5.3.3 (cli) (built: Aug 11 2016 20:33:53) Copyright (c)
   1997-2010 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Code Parrots](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codeparrots/)
 * (@codeparrots)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-when-activating-this-plugin-2/#post-8360429)
 * Hi [@kinghot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kinghot/),
 * It sounds like you are running an outdated version of PHP. My recommendation 
   would be to udate PHP to version 5.4 or later.
 * Let us know if that helped solve the problem for you.
 *  Thread Starter [kinghot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kinghot/)
 * (@kinghot)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-when-activating-this-plugin-2/#post-8369968)
 * Thank for your response. I updated PHP to version :
    PHP 5.6.27 (cli) (built:
   Oct 14 2016 14:06:54) Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.6.0,
   Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies
 * still got this error:
    Fatal error: Call to a member function get() on null in/
   srv/sites/marketplace/wp-content/plugins/digital-publications-by-supsystic/modules/
   templates/mod.php on line 12
 * I used WordPress version 4.6.1
 *  Plugin Contributor [Code Parrots](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codeparrots/)
 * (@codeparrots)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-when-activating-this-plugin-2/#post-8370053)
 * Hi Kinghot,
 * The error you have pasted above is not related to our plugin. It looks like it’s
   coming from the plugin “Digital Publication”. You may want to post in their forum
   and ask what is going on.
 *  [webrgr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webrgr/)
 * (@webrgr)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-when-activating-this-plugin-2/#post-9064171)
 * Hello kingho and Code
 * The problem is if the plugin is in line 64 of the file
 * Timeline-express-html-excerpts-add-on.php
 * You must replace line 63 to 67 for this
 * // Generate the HTML excerpt metabox
    Add_action (“timeline_express_metaboxes”,
   array ($ this, “define_custom_excerpt_metabox”));
 * // Override the default announcement excerpts with HTML excerpt field
    Add_filter(“
   timeline_express_frontend_excerpt”, array ($ this, “replace_default_timeline_express_excerpt”),
   10, 2);
 * By webmasterenlinea.com

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 * Last reply from: [webrgr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webrgr/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-when-activating-this-plugin-2/#post-9064171)
 * Status: resolved