Title: Error fatal Plugin Random Posts
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Error fatal Plugin Random Posts

 *  [xiscomax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xiscomax/)
 * (@xiscomax)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-fatal-plugin-random-posts/)
 * Good, I have this plugin to display older, I am number extablecido a sample of
   older posts.
 * But I get an error when trying to activate the plugin, the error is as follows.
 * `Parse error: parse error, expecting`T_OLD_FUNCTION’ or `T_FUNCTION' or`T_VAR’
   or `'}'' in c:\localhost\easyphp1-8\www\wordpress2.6.5_es\wp-content\plugins\
   random_posts.php on line 8`
 * he code of the plugin random_posts.php is as follows.
 *     ```
       <?php
       /*
       Plugin Name: Random Posts
       */
   
       class RandomPost {
   
       	private $ids = array();
       	private $query;
   
       	function __construct( $posts , $not = null ){
   
       		global $wpdb, $tableposts;
   
       		if ( ctype_digit( $not ) ){
       			$this->query = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT <code>ID</code> FROM <code>$tableposts</code> WHERE <code>ID</code>!= $not AND<code>post_status</code>= 'publish' " );
       		}
       		elseif ( is_null( $not ) ){
       			$this->query = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT <code>ID</code> FROM <code>$tableposts</code> WHERE <code>post_status</code>= 'publish' " );
       		}
       		define( "_MAX_" , count( $this->query ) );
   
       		for ( $n = 0; $n < $posts; $n++ )
       		{
       			$this->ids[ $n ] = mt_rand( 0 , _MAX_ );
       			if ( $n > 0 )
       			{
       				for ( $w = 0; $w < $n; $w++ )
       				{
       					if( $this->ids[ $n ] == $this->ids[ $w ] )
       					{
       						$n --;
       						break;
       					}
       				}
       			}
       		}
       	}
   
       	public function the_link( $x )
       	{
       		$link = get_permalink( $this->query[ $this->ids[ $x ] ]->ID );
       		$post = get_post( $this->query[ $this->ids[ $x ] ]->ID );
       		$title = $post->post_title;
       ?>
       	   <li><a href="<?php echo $link; ?>" title="<?php echo $title; ?>"><?php echo $title; ?></a></li>
       <?
       	}
       }
   
       	function get_random_posts( $exclude , $num_posts = 15 ){
       		if ( ctype_digit( $exclude ) )
       			$post = new RandomPost( $num_posts , $exclude );
       		else
       			$post = new RandomPost( $num_posts );
   
       		for ( $x = 0; $x < $num_posts; $x++ ) {
       			$post->the_link( $x );
       		}
       		$post = null;
       	}
   
       ?>
       ```
   

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