Title: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '['
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '['

 *  Resolved [mm2knet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mm2knet/)
 * (@mm2knet)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-syntax-error-unexpected-133/)
 * Error:
 *     ```
       Das Plugin kann nicht aktiviert werden, da es einen fatalen Fehler erzeugt.
       Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '[' in /var/www/blog/wp-content/plugins/shariff-sharing/shariff-wp.php on line 83
       ```
   
 * The problem exists on machines running php 5.3 or older. I’ve seen this on php
   5.3 and 5.2 installations.
 * solution:
    change line 83 to:
 *     ```
       $tmp=explode(">",strstr($content,"<img"));
       $imgurls = explode("\"",$tmp[0]);
       ```
   
 * php before 5.4 seems not to support the direct access of array elements returned
   from a call.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/shariff-sharing/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/shariff-sharing/)

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 *  [0x2a](https://wordpress.org/support/users/0x2a-1/)
 * (@0x2a-1)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-syntax-error-unexpected-133/#post-5540194)
 * Danke für den Tipp, vielleicht kann das ja in die nächste Version
 *  Plugin Author [yanniks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yanniksde/)
 * (@yanniksde)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-syntax-error-unexpected-133/#post-5540283)
 * Thanks, I’ll include it now.

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