Title: Parse Error Installation Issue
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Parse Error Installation Issue

 *  [samclark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samclark/)
 * (@samclark)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-installation-issue/)
 * Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /home/crestwoo/public_html/
   blog/wp-includes/option.php on line 225
 * My host is running PHP Version 5.3.13
 * Please help!

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-installation-issue/#post-2921337)
 * Contact your hosts. It sounds like they are running PHP4 & PHP5 in tandem which
   can cause problems for WordPress.
 *  [marstinson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marstinson/)
 * (@marstinson)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-installation-issue/#post-2921526)
 * I ran into this issue during my last installation. There is a “clone $newvalue”
   issue on this line. The solution suggested in another thread was to add parentheses
   to make it “clone ($newvalue)”. Clone also appears down on line 306, so put “
   $value” in parentheses at that location, too. Those two changes unstuck my install
   and I was up and running. Hopefully it will work for you, too. Good luck.

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 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
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 * Last reply from: [marstinson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marstinson/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-installation-issue/#post-2921526)
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