Title: [Plugin: MailChimp Widget] Error on activation
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: MailChimp Widget] Error on activation

 *  Resolved [Mythobeast](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mythobeast/)
 * (@mythobeast)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mailchimp-widget-error-on-activation/)
 * Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘{‘ in …/plugins/mailchimp-widget/mailchimp-
   widget.php on line 40
 * This issue was fixed by shifting from PHP4 to PHP5

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 *  Plugin Author [jameslafferty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jameslafferty/)
 * (@jameslafferty)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mailchimp-widget-error-on-activation/#post-1958217)
 * Right on, Mythobeast. Thank you for showing how you fixed it. I’ll add this to
   the FAQ’s in my next release, with a thank you to you. 🙂
 * Cheers,
 * James
 *  [draak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/draak/)
 * (@draak)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mailchimp-widget-error-on-activation/#post-1958421)
 * Hi there,
 * I keep on having an error message in the widget itself in my wordpress dashboard.
   This one:
 * Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/………./public_html/wp-
   content/plugins/mailchimp-widget/lib/ns_widget_mailchimp.class.php on line 90
 * When i go to my website [http://www.dolledwazedeals.nl](http://www.dolledwazedeals.nl)
   the widget looks fine in the sidebar, but when i want to suscribe, i get an error
   message. My hosting uses PHP 5.2 , so i don’t know what causes this.
    Could you
   please help me out?
 *  Plugin Author [jameslafferty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jameslafferty/)
 * (@jameslafferty)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mailchimp-widget-error-on-activation/#post-1958422)
 * Hi draak,
 * I think this is probable related to the issue in this thread:
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-mailing-list?replies=6](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-mailing-list?replies=6)
 * Alternately, it could be that the API key from MailChimp got mangled somewhere
   in copying it and isn’t valid (I should do better checking of that to give a 
   more helpful error message). If you aren’t using MailChimp Archives, and you 
   try changing the API key and it still won’t work, please contact me off list (
   james at nearlysensical dot com) and I’ll be happy to take a closer look at it
   for you.
 * Cheers,
 * J.

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 * Last reply from: [jameslafferty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jameslafferty/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mailchimp-widget-error-on-activation/#post-1958422)
 * Status: resolved