Title: [Plugin: OpenID] The plugin errors out during activation
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: OpenID] The plugin errors out during activation

 *  [plcbrf3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/plcbrf3/)
 * (@plcbrf3)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-openid-the-plugin-errors-out-during-activation/)
 * I thought I’d give it a shot with WordPress 3.0.1….here is the error I received
   out of the wordpress plugin page:
 * Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STATIC, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION
   or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /home2/trituste/public_html/intranet/wp-content/plugins/openid/
   Auth/OpenID/Server.php on line 368
 * Not a developer so I wouldn’t know where to begin to troubleshoot.
 * Anyone else hit this same error?
    thx. – Paul

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 *  [minicom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/minicom/)
 * (@minicom)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-openid-the-plugin-errors-out-during-activation/#post-1664612)
 * I am experiencing the same issue after upgrading to OpenID 3.3.3 on WordPress
   3.0.1.
 *  [tchoi80](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tchoi80/)
 * (@tchoi80)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-openid-the-plugin-errors-out-during-activation/#post-1664751)
 * I got the same error. Any solution?
 *  [angryoldfatman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angryoldfatman/)
 * (@angryoldfatman)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-openid-the-plugin-errors-out-during-activation/#post-1664901)
 * I found out what the problem was with this OpenID plugin activation fatal error.
 * The latest version of the plugin requires you to run PHP version 5 instead of
   PHP version 4.
 * I had been running PHP 4 unknowingly and had been getting fatal errors trying
   to activate the plugin. I went to my web hosting management page and changed 
   over to PHP 5 and it activated without complaint.
 * I don’t know if they actually put **This plugin needs frickin’ PHP 5 to work!!!**
   into the documentation, but they desperately need to.
 *  [Hieu Nguyen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hieu-nguyen/)
 * (@hieu-nguyen)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-openid-the-plugin-errors-out-during-activation/#post-1664915)
 * How would I get back into the management page again? i wanted to deactivate this
   unholy plugin. [my website](http://thehullabaloo.com) goes through a wordpress
   login page. AFter I put my login information in and submit, things looked fine.
   But then when the [http://thehullabaloo.com/wp-admin](http://thehullabaloo.com/wp-admin)
   is requested, the fatal error pops up again.
 * **Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_user_meta() in /home/thehu28/public_html/
   wp-content/plugins/openid/admin_panels.php on line 43**

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 * 4 replies
 * 5 participants
 * Last reply from: [Hieu Nguyen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hieu-nguyen/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-openid-the-plugin-errors-out-during-activation/#post-1664915)
 * Status: not resolved