Title: PHP Parse Error
Last modified: May 1, 2018

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# PHP Parse Error

 *  Resolved [dstana](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dstana/)
 * (@dstana)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-parse-erro/)
 * Aksimet is causing 500 errors on a few of the sites on our servers, the error
   logs show a PHP parse error.
 * `PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '=', expecting ']' in ~/wp-content/
   plugins/akismet/akismet.php on line 76`
    -  This topic was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by [dstana](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dstana/).
    -  This topic was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by [dstana](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dstana/).

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 *  Plugin Author [Christopher Finke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cfinke/)
 * (@cfinke)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-parse-erro/#post-10236806)
 * What is the content of that file? `akismet.php` doesn’t have 76 lines in any 
   of the latest releases. It’s possible some other file has been inadvertently 
   copied there or there was some corruption that caused this parse error.
 *  Thread Starter [dstana](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dstana/)
 * (@dstana)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-parse-erro/#post-10236828)
 * This can be closed, I just found out the customer installed the WP-Editor plugin
   which is causing this conflict.

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 * Last reply from: [dstana](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dstana/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-parse-erro/#post-10236828)
 * Status: resolved