Title: Parse error?
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Parse error?

 *  Resolved [cedarspringscamp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cedarspringscamp/)
 * (@cedarspringscamp)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-314/)
 * When I attempt to activate the plug in, I get this error.
 * Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM in /home/sites/wordpress.
   cedarpark.org/www/wp-content/plugins/sidecar-decision-tree/sidecar/sidecar_track.
   php on line 47
 * Any ideas?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/sidecar-decision-tree/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/sidecar-decision-tree/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Sidecar TV, Plugin Developers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sidecar/)
 * (@sidecar)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-314/#post-5905346)
 * cedarspringscamp – oh no! sorry to hear you’re having issues. i suspect an older
   version of PHP is causing the issue. do yo know what version of PHP your wordpress
   site runs on?
 *  Thread Starter [cedarspringscamp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cedarspringscamp/)
 * (@cedarspringscamp)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-314/#post-5905394)
 * We use version 4.1.1, is that what you are talking about? Sorry, I am a bit of
   a novice
 *  Plugin Author [Sidecar TV, Plugin Developers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sidecar/)
 * (@sidecar)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-314/#post-5905417)
 * cedarspringscamp – no worries about being a novice! We’ll figure how to help 
   you.
 * 4.1.1 is the version of WordPress. That’s the latest, which is great to see! 
   I’m wondering about the version of PHP. If you can SSH in, you can type this 
   to see the version:
 * `php -v`
 * If you can only FTP/SFTP in, you should be to create a file called info.php in
   your web root with this contents:
 * `<?php phpInfo() ?>`
 * Then go to [http://YOURSITE/info.php](http://YOURSITE/info.php). It should show
   something like this at the top, “PHP Version 5.5.3-1ubuntu2.6”. Be sure to delete
   this file when you’re done!
 * As well, if this is all too technical, you could ask who ever does your hosting
   to tell you the version of PHP you run 😉
 *  Thread Starter [cedarspringscamp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cedarspringscamp/)
 * (@cedarspringscamp)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-314/#post-5905448)
 * PHP 5.2.14-pl0-gentoo
 * I asked our IT dept 🙂
 *  Plugin Author [Sidecar TV, Plugin Developers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sidecar/)
 * (@sidecar)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-314/#post-5905451)
 * cedarspringscamp – great! Glad IT was able to help. 5.2.14 is some what dated,
   being released in July of 2010.
 * Stay tuned while we look into this some more!
 *  Plugin Author [Sidecar TV, Plugin Developers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sidecar/)
 * (@sidecar)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-314/#post-5905528)
 * cedarspringscamp – OK! we were able to reproduce the issue. we’ll work torward
   a fix and keep you posted.
 *  Plugin Author [Sidecar TV, Plugin Developers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sidecar/)
 * (@sidecar)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-314/#post-5905538)
 * cedarspringscamp – oh no! we have bad news. after some more research we see that
   this indeed is a problem endemic to your old version of PHP. further research
   yielded that this version is actually too old for us to support.
 * you could try working with your IT dept again to have them change the track_it()
   method in the sidecar_track class. they might try deleting the 4 lines of the
   method and simply putting in “return true;” instead. I know this isn’t super 
   helpful, but we figured it’d be better than nothing!
 * best of luck

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-314/#post-5905538)
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