Title: PHP Error unexpected ‘[‘
Last modified: June 11, 2018

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# PHP Error unexpected ‘[‘

 *  Resolved [mslwebmin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mslwebmin/)
 * (@mslwebmin)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-error-unexpected/)
 * Hello!
 * We have automatic updates enabled and the latest version of the shareaholic plugin(
   v8.7.1) installed last night and broke our site. We get the following error when
   its enabled:
 * `PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '[' in wp-content/plugins/shareaholic/
   public.php on line 872`

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 *  Plugin Author [Shareaholic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shareaholic/)
 * (@shareaholic)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-error-unexpected/#post-10388572)
 * [@mslwebmin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mslwebmin/) Can you please try
   v8.7.2. Released just a few minutes ago. BTW, which version of PHP are you on?
 *  Thread Starter [mslwebmin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mslwebmin/)
 * (@mslwebmin)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-error-unexpected/#post-10388583)
 * **RedHat Linux 6.9**
 * **WordPress v4.9.6**
 * **PHP Version 5.3.3**
    Configure Command ‘./configure’ ‘–build=x86_64-redhat-
   linux-gnu’ ‘–host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu’ ‘–target=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu’ ‘–
   program-prefix=’ ‘–prefix=/usr’ ‘–exec-prefix=/usr’ ‘–bindir=/usr/bin’ ‘–sbindir
   =/usr/sbin’ ‘–sysconfdir=/etc’ ‘–datadir=/usr/share’ ‘–includedir=/usr/include’‘–
   libdir=/usr/lib64’ ‘–libexecdir=/usr/libexec’ ‘–localstatedir=/var’ ‘–sharedstatedir
   =/var/lib’ ‘–mandir=/usr/share/man’ ‘–infodir=/usr/share/info’ ‘–cache-file=../
   config.cache’ ‘–with-libdir=lib64’ ‘–with-config-file-path=/etc’ ‘–with-config-
   file-scan-dir=/etc/php.d’ ‘–disable-debug’ ‘–with-pic’ ‘–disable-rpath’ ‘–without-
   pear’ ‘–with-bz2’ ‘–with-exec-dir=/usr/bin’ ‘–with-freetype-dir=/usr’ ‘–with-
   png-dir=/usr’ ‘–with-xpm-dir=/usr’ ‘–enable-gd-native-ttf’ ‘–without-gdbm’ ‘–
   with-gettext’ ‘–with-gmp’ ‘–with-iconv’ ‘–with-jpeg-dir=/usr’ ‘–with-openssl’‘–
   with-pcre-regex=/usr’ ‘–with-zlib’ ‘–with-layout=GNU’ ‘–enable-exif’ ‘–enable-
   ftp’ ‘–enable-magic-quotes’ ‘–enable-sockets’ ‘–enable-sysvsem’ ‘–enable-sysvshm’‘–
   enable-sysvmsg’ ‘–with-kerberos’ ‘–enable-ucd-snmp-hack’ ‘–enable-shmop’ ‘–enable-
   calendar’ ‘–without-sqlite’ ‘–with-libxml-dir=/usr’ ‘–enable-xml’ ‘–with-system-
   tzdata’ ‘–with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs’ ‘–without-mysql’ ‘–without-gd’ ‘–disable-
   dom’ ‘–disable-dba’ ‘–without-unixODBC’ ‘–disable-pdo’ ‘–disable-xmlreader’ ‘–
   disable-xmlwriter’ ‘–without-sqlite3’ ‘–disable-phar’ ‘–disable-fileinfo’ ‘–disable-
   json’ ‘–without-pspell’ ‘–disable-wddx’ ‘–without-curl’ ‘–disable-posix’ ‘–disable-
   sysvmsg’ ‘–disable-sysvshm’ ‘–disable-sysvsem’
 * **Apache/2.2.15**
    Loaded Modules core prefork http_core mod_so mod_auth_basic
   mod_auth_digest mod_authn_file mod_authn_alias mod_authn_anon mod_authn_dbm mod_authn_default
   mod_authz_host mod_authz_user mod_authz_owner mod_authz_groupfile mod_authz_dbm
   mod_authz_default util_ldap mod_authnz_ldap mod_include mod_log_config mod_logio
   mod_env mod_ext_filter mod_mime_magic mod_expires mod_deflate mod_headers mod_usertrack
   mod_setenvif mod_mime mod_dav mod_status mod_autoindex mod_info mod_dav_fs mod_vhost_alias
   mod_negotiation mod_dir mod_actions mod_speling mod_userdir mod_alias mod_substitute
   mod_rewrite mod_proxy mod_proxy_balancer mod_proxy_ftp mod_proxy_http mod_proxy_ajp
   mod_proxy_connect mod_cache mod_suexec mod_disk_cache mod_cgi mod_version mod_php5
   mod_ssl
 *  Plugin Author [Shareaholic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shareaholic/)
 * (@shareaholic)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-error-unexpected/#post-10388590)
 * You should consider upgrading your version of PHP 🙂 Let me know if v8.7.2 works
   for you.
 *  Thread Starter [mslwebmin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mslwebmin/)
 * (@mslwebmin)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-error-unexpected/#post-10388599)
 * Yep! the update fixed it.
 * And yeah, we already have a plan to upgrade soon the server OS and along with
   that move to PHP 7.
 * Thanks for the quick reply!
 *  Plugin Author [Shareaholic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shareaholic/)
 * (@shareaholic)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-error-unexpected/#post-10388609)
 * You’re welcome!

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 * Last activity: [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-error-unexpected/#post-10388609)
 * Status: resolved