Title: Fatal error
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Fatal error

 *  Resolved [matteo raggi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whichtransfers/)
 * (@whichtransfers)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-1979/)
 * Activating the plugin, then I receive this error:
    the plugin was not activated
   cause of a Fatal Error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘[‘ in …./public_html/
   wp-content/plugins/shipping-by-rules-for-woocommerce/includes/rules-shipping-
   post-type.php on line 182
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/shipping-by-rules-for-woocommerce/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/shipping-by-rules-for-woocommerce/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Open Tools](https://wordpress.org/support/users/opentools/)
 * (@opentools)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-1979/#post-6993017)
 * Dear Matteo,
    Thank you for the bug report. It seems that you have php 5.3 (rather
   than 5.4 or above) installed on your server, which does not support a feature
   we had used in line 182 of the code as given in the error message. We have now
   fixed this to work with php 5.3, too.
 * Could you please upgrade to version 1.1.1 of the plugin and let us know whether
   this fixes all the errors you encountered?
 * Best regards,
    Reinhold
 *  Thread Starter [matteo raggi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whichtransfers/)
 * (@whichtransfers)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-1979/#post-6993018)
 * all right now, thanks! yes it was php 5.3, cause of vtiger crm old version somewhere..

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 * Last reply from: [matteo raggi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whichtransfers/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-1979/#post-6993018)
 * Status: resolved