Title: Installation error
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Installation error

 *  Resolved [datacate](https://wordpress.org/support/users/datacate/)
 * (@datacate)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-error-84/)
 * Receive this error when attempting to install: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected
   T_FUNCTION in /home/content/03/8214003/html/wp-content/plugins/if-shortcode/plugin.
   php on line 87
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/if-shortcode/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/if-shortcode/)

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 *  Plugin Author [geomagas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geomagas/)
 * (@geomagas)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-error-84/#post-5921994)
 * Hello datacate,
 * What php version are you running on?
 *  Plugin Author [geomagas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geomagas/)
 * (@geomagas)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-error-84/#post-5921996)
 * Line 87 employed a [php closure](http://php.net/manual/en/functions.anonymous.php),
   which is a 5.3+ feature, rendering the plugin incompatible with versions earlier
   than 5.3.
 * It turns out it was totally unnecessary after all, so I replaced it in 0.2.1 
   with much simpler code.
 * Thanks for the feedback. Enjoy!
 *  Thread Starter [datacate](https://wordpress.org/support/users/datacate/)
 * (@datacate)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-error-84/#post-5922092)
 * Yeah, running 5.2.17 – for this particular site it’s on a shared server so I 
   have to wait on admins for an upgrade. I figured it was a PHP version thing. 
   Found a different way to handle my issue. Closing this ticket.

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 * [installation error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/installation-error/)
 * [php-error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/php-error/)

 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [datacate](https://wordpress.org/support/users/datacate/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-error-84/#post-5922092)
 * Status: resolved