Title: Syntax Error in common.php
Last modified: October 9, 2018

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# Syntax Error in common.php

 *  Resolved [astrologeeks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/astrologeeks/)
 * (@astrologeeks)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-in-common-php/)
 * Hi there, wordpress is failing to install the plugin because of a syntax error
   on line 1970 of common.php
 * The fatal error is as follows:
    Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘[‘ in /
   home/rizecon/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-cerber/common.php on line 1970
 * // [@since](https://wordpress.org/support/users/since/) v. 7.7 for PHP-FPM
    if(!
   function_exists( ‘getallheaders’ ) ) { function getallheaders() { $headers = [];
   foreach ( $_SERVER as $name => $value ) { if ( substr( $name, 0, 5 ) == ‘HTTP_’){
   $headers[ str_replace( ‘ ‘, ‘-‘, ucwords( strtolower( str_replace( ‘_’, ‘ ‘, 
   substr( $name, 5 ) ) ) ) ) ] = $value; } }
 *  return $headers;
    } }

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 *  [Nazar Hotsa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bugnumber9/)
 * (@bugnumber9)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-in-common-php/#post-10764767)
 * Are you using some older version of PHP? Looks like it’s 5.3 or something.
 *  Plugin Author [gioni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gioni/)
 * (@gioni)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-in-common-php/#post-10769889)
 * Hi! Please update your PHP or install the latest dev version: [https://wpcerber.com/development-version-7-7-2/](https://wpcerber.com/development-version-7-7-2/)

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 * [fatal errors](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/fatal-errors/)
 * [syntax errors](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/syntax-errors/)

 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [gioni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gioni/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-in-common-php/#post-10769889)
 * Status: resolved