Title: Fatal error when activating Cloudflare
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Fatal error when activating Cloudflare

 *  Resolved [Petsearchers Canada](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petsearchers-canada/)
 * (@petsearchers-canada)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-when-activating-cloudflare-1/)
 * When attempting to activate Cloudflare, I am getting a fatal error. I have tried
   uninstalling and reinstalling the plug in with no success. Any insight would 
   be appreciated!
 * The error is:
 * Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING
   or ‘(‘ in /home5/petsearc/public_html/wp-content/plugins/cloudflare/cloudflare.
   php on line 36
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/cloudflare/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cloudflare/)

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 *  [jwineman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jwineman/)
 * (@jwineman)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-when-activating-cloudflare-1/#post-7235438)
 * What version of PHP are you running?
 *  [icyapril](https://wordpress.org/support/users/icyapril/)
 * (@icyapril)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-when-activating-cloudflare-1/#post-7235446)
 * It looks like the version of PHP you’re using doesn’t support namespaces (it 
   was introduced in PHP 5.3.0); you might need to upgrade your PHP version to resolve
   this (or get your host to do so).
 *  [jwineman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jwineman/)
 * (@jwineman)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-when-activating-cloudflare-1/#post-7235512)
 * Exactly what icyapril said. We have this as a bug that will be fixed in 1.3.25
   but for now the work around is to upgrade your version of PHP to 5.3+
 *  Thread Starter [Petsearchers Canada](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petsearchers-canada/)
 * (@petsearchers-canada)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-when-activating-cloudflare-1/#post-7235518)
 * Thanks so much – updated the php and we are up and running. Appreciate the help!

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 * Last reply from: [Petsearchers Canada](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petsearchers-canada/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-when-activating-cloudflare-1/#post-7235518)
 * Status: resolved