Title: Parse error on “new \Timber\Timber”
Last modified: December 23, 2016

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# Parse error on “new \Timber\Timber”

 *  [dparvanova](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dparvanova/)
 * (@dparvanova)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/aprse-error/)
 * Hello,
 * I received a site from a developer and when I try to run it I got this error:
 * Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in ……/plugins/timber-library/timber.
   php on line 21
    the line is: new \Timber\Timber;
 * PHP Version 5.2.17
    -  This topic was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by [dparvanova](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dparvanova/).
    -  This topic was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by [bdbrown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bdbrown/).

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 *  Thread Starter [dparvanova](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dparvanova/)
 * (@dparvanova)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/aprse-error/#post-8586492)
 * I found it.
    Upgrading to php 5.3 (at least) did the job
 *  Plugin Author [jarednova](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jarednova/)
 * (@jarednova)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/aprse-error/#post-8614675)
 * Glad to hear [@dparvanova](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dparvanova/)! 
   Yes, Timber requires PHP 5.3

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