Title: [Plugin: Showtime] Error on Activation
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Showtime] Error on Activation

 *  [yesfree](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yesfree/)
 * (@yesfree)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-showtime-error-on-activation/)
 * Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.
    Parse error:
   syntax error, unexpected end of file in C:\xampp\htdocs\domain\wp-content\plugins\
   showtime\showtime.php on line 554
 * Or is it because of it being on localhost…?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/showtime/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/showtime/)

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 *  [patsky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/patsky/)
 * (@patsky)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-showtime-error-on-activation/#post-3006898)
 * I had this too. Change the final <? (line 538 – 17 rows from bottom) to <?php
 * It’s likely to do with php shortcodes not being switched on in your php.ini file.
   That did the trick for me.
 *  [patsky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/patsky/)
 * (@patsky)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-showtime-error-on-activation/#post-3006899)
 * Bit hasty with the reply – there was more to do!
 * If you can’t enable short tags in your php.ini (I couldn’t) then you need to 
   edit the plugin file showtime.php to swap all instances of <?= to <?php echo
 *  Thread Starter [yesfree](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yesfree/)
 * (@yesfree)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-showtime-error-on-activation/#post-3006904)
 * Thanks Patsky it worked like a charm…lol

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 * Last reply from: [yesfree](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yesfree/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-showtime-error-on-activation/#post-3006904)
 * Status: not resolved