Title: Responsive-menu cannot be activated
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Responsive-menu cannot be activated

 *  Resolved [philisamalo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/philisamalo/)
 * (@philisamalo)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/responsive-menu-cannot-be-activated/)
 * Get this error when I try to activate the plugin :
 * ” Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘[‘ in /datas/vhosts/philisamalo.eu/httpdocs/
   wp-content/plugins/responsive-menu/src/app/Routing/WpRouting.php on line 19 “
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/responsive-menu/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/responsive-menu/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [responsivemenu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/responsivemenu/)
 * (@responsivemenu)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/responsive-menu-cannot-be-activated/#post-7551603)
 * Hey there,
 * Please read the FAQ tab and the other support questions, you have too low a version
   of PHP.
 * Please upgrade to PHP 5.4 or higher.
 * All the best
 *  [deargeek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deargeek/)
 * (@deargeek)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/responsive-menu-cannot-be-activated/#post-7551604)
 * I had this on one of my sites – the PHP version was too old. Changing to a more
   up-to-date version of PHP fixed it.
 *  Plugin Contributor [responsivemenu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/responsivemenu/)
 * (@responsivemenu)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/responsive-menu-cannot-be-activated/#post-7551611)
 * Hey deargeek,
 * Thanks for the input.
 * I’m interested to know of improvements I can make for people to know that this
   is the cause.
 * I have tried putting it in the FAQ section, Changelog, upgrade page, on my site
   etc. but it seems people are still missing it.
 * Any ideas?
 *  [andywozhere](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andywozhere/)
 * (@andywozhere)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/responsive-menu-cannot-be-activated/#post-7551770)
 * Could you put a message in the actual WordPress update page? Most people update
   first and look for the info later!
 * I notice some plugins seem to have a message below the _Compatibility with WordPress
   4.5.3: 100% (according to its author)_ part.
 *  Plugin Contributor [responsivemenu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/responsivemenu/)
 * (@responsivemenu)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/responsive-menu-cannot-be-activated/#post-7551771)
 * Hi there,
 * I had added this information to the Upgrade Notices section, Im not sure why 
   it is not showing to users before upgrading.
 * Thanks for letting me know that this is not working – I will take a look and 
   test it out shortly.
 * All the best

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 * 5 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [responsivemenu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/responsivemenu/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/responsive-menu-cannot-be-activated/#post-7551771)
 * Status: resolved