Title: Syntax Error in functions.php
Last modified: December 23, 2016

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# Syntax Error in functions.php

 *  [CrouchingBruin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crouchingbruin/)
 * (@crouchingbruin)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-in-functions-php-2/)
 * Just installed this theme to try it out and right away I got the following syntax
   error that doesn’t even allow me to get into the admin dashboard:
 *     ```
       Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '[' in D:\Hosting\2464642\html\sandbox\wp-content\themes\ruffie\functions.php on line 244
       ```
   
 * I am using version 1.4.1 of the theme.

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 *  [Mayo Moriyama](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mayukojpn/)
 * (@mayukojpn)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-in-functions-php-2/#post-8592207)
 * Hello! Could you describe which PHP version are you using?
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 5 months ago by [Mayo Moriyama](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mayukojpn/).
 *  Thread Starter [CrouchingBruin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crouchingbruin/)
 * (@crouchingbruin)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-in-functions-php-2/#post-8593965)
 * PHP Version 5.3.6. I tried upgrading to 5.4.16 (which is the highest version 
   that GoDaddy offers for shared hosting) and my site didn’t even come up, so I
   switched back.

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-in-functions-php-2/#post-8593965)
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